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[Jake]

Well the problem for me is that, there is NO Windows XP on the grub, at all.. Not on the 'menu.lst' or on the boot menu at first start up, I ONLY have the option of choosing between Ubuntu and Ubuntu (recoverymode), but no Windows XP, should I copy my 'menu.lst' on here for you to see? Could there be something I can put in there so that I might beable to boot into either one of them?

> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> From: news at pointerstop.ca
> Subject: Re: Help
> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:52:15 -0300
> 
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> 
> >> Fine - but that's not much help if you (as Jake has) have already
> >> installed
> >> both OS's and you don't have a grub menu.  In my case, the installer got
> >> it right with every install since Warty - except the time I installed to
> >> an external drive, but there's enough anecdotal evidence that, even if
> >> there isn't anything actually wrong with the installer, it's not too
> >> difficult for a user to complete the install without getting grub
> >> properly set up.
> >>
> >> That said, I think Nils probably got it right, with the menu just being
> >> hidden.
> > 
> > It has to be said also that the default timeout of 5secs before Grub boots
> > the default kernel passes very quickly when you perhaps are a bit
> > confused, and you can find yourself being booted into Ubuntu, rather than
> > having the time to think of what to do to get the menu, and stop the
> > countdown.
> 
> Yes.  I set mine to 10 seconds as the best (for me) compromise between a
> fast boot and giving me enough time to select my second OS, and even then,
> when I'm really trying to boot into another OS, I frequently miss the
> prompt :-( [you know, it's taking 60 seconds to shut down, so you start
> doing something else, then all of a sudden you see it starting Linux
> already]
> 
> > The first thing I do with a new install is to go into /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > (or menu.lst, if thats the only file there), and change the default
> > timeout to 30secs, and comment out the hiddenmenu line.
> > 
> > Talking about Ubuntu/Kubuntu's Grub picking up other OS's on the system,
> > it finds every OS that it can that are on your drives, and adds them to
> > Grubs menu. I have one drive sda, which has all the distros on it, and
> > another drive sdb, which is just for data. The first 2 partitions on sdb
> > are vfat (FAT32). Grub always picks these up, and creates a chainloader to
> > them, even though no operating system exists on these partitions. 
> 
> Grub doesn't actually do that, the installer does.  They're already there in
> menu.lst before grub is ever installed on the drive, or invoked.  But my
> experience is that it _doesn't_ always catch every partition.  It's pretty
> darn good, but it would be very hard for it to recognize _every_ possible
> bootable partition.
> 
> > I mean "Other" is a bit obscure as well
> 
> :-)  I've taken to using exactly that - "Other" is a chainloader to whatever
> is on sda1 - which is my recent test OS of interest.
> 
> -- 
> derek
> 
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