On 11-05-02 03:58 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I just installed debian squeeze on my wife's computer. It was the
easiest Linux install I ever did. It was even easier than the time I
installed ubuntu long ago.
Except for one thing. Although during installation it recognised my
Windows XP system in the list of other operating systems, the actual
installed grub bootloader only gives me Debian.
What do I have to do to enable booting Windows? There doesn't seem to
be a /boot/grub/menu.lst any more; instad there are oodles of .mod and
other files.
-- hendrik
First thing to do is boot into debian and in the terminal run
sudo update-grub
(or su to root then run update-grub if you don't use sudo)
Then reboot and see if the entry is there. This command reinitializes
the grub menu.
If this does not work (something is wrong, ie: debian cannot
automatically see you winXP partition, this could mean it got wiped out
somehow, but don't panic yet):
Assuming your windows XP is the first partition on the first disk:
- edit the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom
- add this stanza
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP" {
insmod chain
set root=(hd0,1)
chainloader +1
}
- run 'sudo update-grub' (or su to root then run update-grub if you
don't use sudo)
Let us know if it works out.
Jeremy
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