Dual boot problem - Vista disappeared from Grub menu

[NoOp]

On 09/21/2010 02:36 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 September 2010 21:28, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> Colin, instead of using (hd0,x) as done earlier, for a permanent more
>> failsafe manual entry for windows, make it use uuid as well too, as an
>> example....
>>
>>
>> menuentry "Windows Vista" {
>>        insmod ntfs
>>        set root=(hd0,x)
>>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>        chainloader +1
>> }
>>
> 
> I was in the process of following this advice when I looked more
> carefully at grub.cfg and realised that I had misinterpreted the
> problem.  It is actually on a relative's machine several hundred miles
> away which has complicated things a bit.  The Vista boot is not
> missing at all, it is just wrongly labeled in the boot menu.  There
> should be a Windows Recovery entry and a Vista entry, (and my relative
> is confident that there used to be a Vista one, but is not sure what
> the recovery one was labeled as).  Now, however, the recovery one is
> labeled "Windows NT/2000/XP (on /dev/sda1)" and the Vista one is
> labeled "Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" which
> is rather confusing to say the least.
> 
> In order to avoid confusion I am going ahead with a custom entry for
> Vista as you have suggested.  It would be nice to hide the erroneous
> entries but I have not been able to work out how to do that.

Why even have the Vist recovery environment entry at all? Remember this
thread?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-March/213839.html