grub boot menu

[Derek Broughton]

Mumia W. wrote:

> 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)

I'm sure that if I _meant_ that, I would have said so.  :-) 

ime, either one will work fine.  The version without "noverify" comes right
out of the commented section of a standard menu.lst.
-- 
derek