Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Wed Oct 3 05:25:35 UTC 2007


Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007, John Graddy wrote:
>> I have re-installed Windows from scratch and then installed gutsy.  No
>> success.  I am tempted to reinstall feisty to see if it installs the
>> dual boot grub successfully.
> 
> Wow, what a bunch of wasted time, even if you didn't lose any files or setup.
> 
> Adding Windows to a menu.lst is super easy.  It's only about two lines.
> 
> If someone on here doesn't have those two lines, I'll dig them out for you.
> 

Here's my entry, added as the very last thing in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title		Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

-d






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