Grub 2 information

[Tom H]

>> I have looked hard at this information:

>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Adding%20Entries%20to%20Grub%202

>> and it has zero examples on how to actually do this!

>>     I want the guys who wrote this to show an example of a real Lucid
>> system where I have many partitions and I want to make not the last
>> Lucid to boot up but rather cause my Windows to boot up automatic rather
>> than the Lucid.

>>     This is dirt easy with an editor on menu.lst and I want to see how
>> easy it is to do this same thing with Grub2.

> What could be simpler to do than create an executable file in
> /etc/grub.d with the following
> cat << EOF
> menuentry "Karl custom" {
>        set root=(hd0,X)
>        linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6...custom root=UUID=<uuid> ro
>        initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6...custom
> }
> and then running update-grub?

Sorry did not read Karl's email carefully enough. IIUC, Karl wants the
Windows entry to be the top one.

Create an executable /etc/grub.d/09_windows with
menuentry "Windows" {
        set root=(hd0,X)
        chainloader +1
}
and run update-grub