GRUB problem after upgrading to 10.04

[Goh Lip]

On Sat, 1 May 2010 11:28:32 -0300
"Guillermo O. Burastero" <linux.gb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

And that is easier than 'sudo update-grub'?

gl


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