The instructions Jeremy provided should work, but if you read the web site you can recover / replace a grub install with one of the boot disks on the site.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- ___..___........__.......__ ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi
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