GRUB problem after upgrading to 10.04

[Guillermo O. Burastero]

Hi, after I've made a new installation of the brand new Ubuntu 10.04
AMD64 the grub2 menu not recognized the Windows XP bootable partition
I had in /dev/sda1.

So, after searching for a while I found the next simple solution.

Open a console terminal and enter the next commands excluding
commented lines beginning with ;

; made I a superuser

# sudo su -l

; enter your user password needed to gain superuser privileges

; go to /boot/grub directory

# cd /boot/grub

; for backup purpose I did a copy of grub.cfg

# cp grub.cfg grub-bak.cfg

; do the "magic" with grub-mkconfig that generates automatically the
new grub.cfg file including the missing windows bootable partition.

# grub-mkconfig -o grub.cfg

; and thats all, you can make to see the new lines added by
grub-mkconfig in the new /boot/grub/grub.cfg file.

# diff grub.cfg grub0.cfg

; exit superuser session

# exit

After that, I rebooted my system and in my boot grub menu the new
Windows boot entry appears again.

P.S.: Excuse my English, it's not my native language.


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