how to add winxp to grub menu

**paichkash** · August 6th, 2012

hi
i have 2 harddrives in my pc ..
one has xp and i bought another for linux just to be safe .. i removed the xp hdd and pluged linux hdd installed ubuntu ... after all was done and ubuntu was up and running.. i attached the xp hdd on another seperate IDE cable.. now to boot xp i go to bios and select the correspondign hdd for first boot device and for linux select the other one..
its very tiresome work as i frequently swap between both..

Ho can i add an option in the Ubuntu GRUB for XP ?

**drs305** · August 6th, 2012

Boot your Ubuntu OS. With the Windows drive connected, open a terminal and run:

Code:

sudo update-grub

GRUB should find Windows and add it to the GRUB menu. The next time you boot you should have a choice of which OS you would like to boot.

**yuvraj23** · August 6th, 2012

Open terminal and enter this commands.. If it doesn't works then reply here

Code:

sudo update-grub

**yuvraj23** · August 6th, 2012

Originally Posted by drs305

Boot your Ubuntu OS. With the Windows drive connected, open a terminal and run:

Code:

sudo update-grub

GRUB should find Windows and add it to the GRUB menu. The next time you boot you should have a choice of which OS you would like to boot.

Very fast!

**unevenflow** · August 6th, 2012

Hey, you could use ###Boot-Repair###
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
check here for instructions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

**paichkash** · August 8th, 2012

i added the following to /boot/grub/menu.list file

Code:

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

and xp showd there . now i mostly use xp as default with once or twice in a bluemoon i use ubuntu to practice on it my linux commands.. which i am trying to study on myself... so i want to make xp default instead of ubuntu...

i have just moved the above code above all other options .. will see if just that makes xp the default...

thanks for real fast help..