Grub not right on new install.

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> wrote:
> I installed 8.04 on a desktop system intending it to dual boot with
> WinXP, which one user requires for coursework software. The install went
> fine and Hardy is running great on the system. The problem is that Grub
> somehow did not pick up the WinXP installation which is in a partition
> on another hard drive. Do you think that running "sudo update-grub" will
> be enough, or as I fear will I need to add WinXP manually?
>

To show you what it should look like, h ere's the end of my menu.lst
file.  My MS Windows partition is on disk 1 partition 2.  that
translates to (hd0,1) below.   The Ubuntu install picked that up
automatically, sorry yours did not catch i t.


title           Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic
root=UUID=c696512a-28fd-4842-a38e-bea78fbcd242 ro single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic

title           Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title           Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title           Dell Utility Partition
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root            (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas