<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Well the problem for me is that, there is NO Windows XP on the grub, at all.. Not on the 'menu.lst' or on the boot menu at first start up, I ONLY have the option of choosing between Ubuntu and Ubuntu (recoverymode), but no Windows XP, should I copy my 'menu.lst' on here for you to see? Could there be something I can put in there so that I might beable to boot into either one of them? > To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > From: news@pointerstop.ca > Subject: Re: Help > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:52:15 -0300 > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > >> Fine - but that's not much help if you (as Jake has) have already > >> installed > >> both OS's and you don't have a grub menu. In my case, the installer got > >> it right with every install since Warty - except the time I installed to > >> an external drive, but there's enough anecdotal evidence that, even if > >> there isn't anything actually wrong with the installer, it's not too > >> difficult for a user to complete the install without getting grub > >> properly set up. > >> > >> That said, I think Nils probably got it right, with the menu just being > >> hidden. > > > > It has to be said also that the default timeout of 5secs before Grub boots > > the default kernel passes very quickly when you perhaps are a bit > > confused, and you can find yourself being booted into Ubuntu, rather than > > having the time to think of what to do to get the menu, and stop the > > countdown. > > Yes. I set mine to 10 seconds as the best (for me) compromise between a > fast boot and giving me enough time to select my second OS, and even then, > when I'm really trying to boot into another OS, I frequently miss the > prompt :-( [you know, it's taking 60 seconds to shut down, so you start > doing something else, then all of a sudden you see it starting Linux > already] > > > The first thing I do with a new install is to go into /boot/grub/grub.conf > > (or menu.lst, if thats the only file there), and change the default > > timeout to 30secs, and comment out the hiddenmenu line. > > > > Talking about Ubuntu/Kubuntu's Grub picking up other OS's on the system, > > it finds every OS that it can that are on your drives, and adds them to > > Grubs menu. I have one drive sda, which has all the distros on it, and > > another drive sdb, which is just for data. The first 2 partitions on sdb > > are vfat (FAT32). Grub always picks these up, and creates a chainloader to > > them, even though no operating system exists on these partitions. > > Grub doesn't actually do that, the installer does. They're already there in > menu.lst before grub is ever installed on the drive, or invoked. But my > experience is that it _doesn't_ always catch every partition. It's pretty > darn good, but it would be very hard for it to recognize _every_ possible > bootable partition. > > > I mean "Other" is a bit obscure as well > > :-) I've taken to using exactly that - "Other" is a chainloader to whatever > is on sda1 - which is my recent test OS of interest. > > -- > derek > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users <hr />Reveal your inner athlete and share it with friends on Windows Live. <a href='http://revealyourinnerathlete.windowslive.com?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WLYIA_whichathlete_us' target='_new'>Share now!</a></body> </html>