Grub problems
My wife's laptop is a dual-boot machine, with Vista. The grub menu is slightly borked, and I can't figure out how to fix it. Running update-grub gives incorrect results, and thus a bad menu. It reports sda2 as Windows recovery partition, and sda3 as Vista loader. This is wrong, and the two are reversed. sda2 is the Vista loader, and sda3 is the recovery partition. Trying to boot what grub calls Vista gives the recovery menu, and booting what grub calls the recovery partition gives a normal Vista boot. I want Vista as the default, because that's what she knows, and I can do that by making the recovery partition the nominal default, but it looks odd, and it will eventually cause major problems, because she knows nothing about computers, and I'm away from home more than half the time. When she has a problem, she'll get her brother-in-law to help, and he will see that menu and the game is over. No use trying to explain it to him.
How can I fix the menu? Reading the community docs shows how to add menu items, but not how to edit existing items, and the underlying problem is that update-grub is reading the partitions wrong. That's what I really need to fix.
Asus EEE 900 with Linux Mint Debian Edition
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