Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

[John Graddy]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:48 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, John Graddy wrote:
> > I currently have the latter.  However, I have tried both, and I don't
> > get a Windows boot option.  I have tried 'sudo update-grub' and I still
> > don't get a Windows entry.  
> 
> Ok, I take it back.   You don't get the Windows entry.   I tried the same and 
> didn't get it.
> 
> However, it only took me about 30 seconds to fix the problem.   I did two 
> things and I think the second one is Key.
> 
> 1) I moved the windows entry up to the top of the list of other entries.  You 
> had it waaaay down beyond all those entries.  Why?  But I don't think this 
> was the problem.
> 
> 2)  I changed 'Title' to be  'title'  like all of the other entries.  I guess 
> no one noticed this and apparently GRUB is case-sensitive.
> 
> That did it.  Now the Windows entry shows up.
> 
> 
> And the answer to your initial question was contained in the comments in the 
> menu.lst file.   Look above the title entries and you will see an example of 
> booting Windows.
> 
> Have fun.
> 
THAT WORKED!  Thank you very much for all of your effort.

I changed 'Title' to 'title' right where it already was in menu.lst and
I now get a Windows XP boot option.  Your efforts are greatly
appreciated as are the efforts of all the others who contributed
suggestions.

Thanks again,
John