Grub not working

[dave boland]

> OK. Wasn't sure which you were on.  Here is the Grub 2 manual (actually
> 1.99~rc1)
> 
> Looking at 4.1.2 Chain-loading an OS, it gives us
> 
> menuentry "Windows" {
> 	insmod chain
> 	insmod ntfs
> 	set root=(hd0,1)
> 	chainloader +1
> }
> 
> but that's not exactly what is in my /boot/grub/grub.cfg built by
> update-grub.
> 
> You will see in '5.1 Simple configuration handling', that it doesn't
> guarantee the grub-mkconfig program (which is run by update-grub) will
> do everything you want and even suggests (horror of horrors) that you
> might need to create your own /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
> 
> The non linux systems are found by a program called os-prober.  When I
> run it (with sudo), it gives 
> 
> /dev/sda1:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition:Windows:chain
> /dev/sda4:Windows NT/2000/XP:Windows1:chain
> 
> See if it will detect ME for you.  That may be the problem.
> 
> Tony

Tony,

This is the output:
$ sudo os-prober
[sudo] password for dave: 
~$ 

Looks like it didn't even find Linux!

Dave,
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