Adding a Slave drive need help on uuid setup

[Colin Law]

On 7 December 2010 17:06, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 10:43 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 7 December 2010 16:35, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
>
> What I mean is when my system boots up, it shows me all of my drives, which
> gives me the option to choose which one to bootup, may it be WINDOZE drive
> or my Linux drive...
>
> Yes I currently boot off of my master drive and it is Ubuntu 10.4...
>
> Like I said it shows up in the bios, telling me that the drive is there, but
> I want it too show up in the menu.lst I think that is what comes up when
> booting...I would have to do a reboot to make sure if that is what it is
> called...
>
> If, in a terminal, you type
> sudo update-grub
> it will scan the discs and find the operating systems on your discs
> and make them available on booting.  However the new disk will only
> appear as a boot option if there is an operating system on it.  You
> did not reply to that question I asked previously.
>
> Now I did have a smaller hard drive which had windows xp on it, so when I
> booted up, I have the choice to either start XP or Linux, now I want it to
> be able too do the samething as it did before...But now since I have
> replaced that drive, I am sure that the uuid needs to be changed and what
> ever else that needs to be done for it to show up when I boot...
>
> Have you installed XP on the new disc?
>
> Colin
>
> Sorry, but I thought I mentioned that I do have WIN XP on that slave
> drive...
> And all that I now need too do is use update grub...???

sudo update-grub should do it.

Colin