Dual Boot Grub2 Windows

[liquidcable]

Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side Windows XP (separate hard drive). The install did not configure grub to give me a choice of OS, and does not take settings changes from Start-Up Manager. On boot up it goes straight to ubuntu, no splash, no text.

There is no 9.10 documentation on the Ubuntu website and the grub2 site is useless. There is no longer a /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

After some googling I found this link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2.

Start-Up Manger appears to be completely useless, yet again I have to go to the command line to fix a problem. What century is this :(

OMG!! Running update-grud does NOT finds windows. Adding entries to grub are way to complicated, and I still have found any exact instructions on how to add a windows xp entry to grub.

Anyone know how?

[psykro]

I'm not expert, but I have a similar problem, and I am going to make some educated guesses.

On 9.04 I used to use this method http://blog.firetree.net/2005/08/26/duel-boot-windows-with-grub/ for dual booting with separate hard drives. It defined the menu.lst entry as


title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1


Followed you link to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2. and found the ubuntu community documentation link to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2.

Read the community documentation entry and found this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Custom%20Menu%20Entries and reading a but further found this:


A sample entry for chainloading to another GRUB bootloader.

menuentry "Grub 1 Bootloader" {

set root=(hd0,8)

chainloader +1

}


So my guess is to add a custom menu entry (as described in the community documentation) with a format similar to menu.lst (as described in my first link) but added to the right place for grub 2 (adding scripts in /etc/grub.d/ directory)

Hope this helps somehow, I am going to try it tonight myself and will post my results.

[sliketymo]

Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side Windows XP (separate hard drive). The install did not configure grub to give me a choice of OS, and does not take settings changes from Start-Up Manager. On boot up it goes straight to ubuntu, no splash, no text.

There is no 9.10 documentation on the Ubuntu website and the grub2 site is useless. There is no longer a /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

After some googling I found this link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2.

Start-Up Manger appears to be completely useless, yet again I have to go to the command line to fix a problem. What century is this :(

OMG!! Running update-grub does NOT finds windows. Adding entries to grub are way to complicated, and I still have found any exact instructions on how to add a windows xp entry to grub.

Anyone know how?

Just a wild guess,but you may have to adjust your Bios setting to boot whichever drive you want first.

[psykro]

I didnt manage to fix it myself, but I found a fix here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1264151&page=2) which should help, did the trick for me.

[etxkesa]

I have the opposite problem. I used to have Ubuntu (Karmic) on the master disk, but chose to put Windows XP on that disk (as it's smaller than one of the SATA disks I have) and put Ubuntu on the larger SATA disk. Now I installed Ubuntu (Lucid) to the SATA disk OK, but nothing was done to the MBR of the master disk. I tried the Windows options for boot, but when I chose the Ubuntu disk nothing happened. How can I get Grub to set up the MBR under windows XP?

[wilee-nilee]

I have the opposite problem. I used to have Ubuntu (Karmic) on the master disk, but chose to put Windows XP on that disk (as it's smaller than one of the SATA disks I have) and put Ubuntu on the larger SATA disk. Now I installed Ubuntu (Lucid) to the SATA disk OK, but nothing was done to the MBR of the master disk. I tried the Windows options for boot, but when I chose the Ubuntu disk nothing happened. How can I get Grub to set up the MBR under windows XP?

Each problem is a little different, so start your own thread and post the script in my sig with the code tags instructions in the sig.