grub boot menu

[Mumia W.]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Anthony DiMarzo wrote:
> 
>> Hello:
>>          Something strange. I was in ubuntu 8.0.5 and restarted to go into
>>          windows xp, but there was no option for windows, all other
>>          options we're there. This was the first time the windows option
>>          was not there. Please help.
>                                                     
> My bet would be that the windows boot stanza was placed between the:
> 
> ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> 
> lines, which would guarantee that it would get deleted after an update-grub
> (which happens whenever you get a new kernel).
> 
> To fix your current menu.lst, add:
> 
>  title         Windows 95/98/NT/2000
>  root          (hd0,0)

Did you mean this?

rootnoverify	(hd0,0)

>  makeactive
>  chainloader   +1
> 
> AFTER the "### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" line.  If Windows isn't on
> your first partition, remember to make the "root" option, above, point to
> the correct partition.

Anthony sould see this too:

http://www.fifi.org/doc/grub-doc/html/grub_4.html#SEC21