menu.lst changes after system upgrade

[rodrigosprimo]

Hi there, somethings I install Ubuntu in some friend machine with dual boot. The problem is that when this user update his Ubuntu system (with the update-manager or with apt-get upgrade) the process overwrite the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and erase the Windows boot entry.

I've seen this problem since Ubuntu 5.10 (when I've started using the distro). Is there a way to tell the system do add new entries to the file and not to overwrite it? Another way to solve this?

Thanks, Rodrigo.

[Rallg]

Read the menu.lst file. Where is the boot item for Windows? If it is contained within the "automagic kernels" section, each update to Grub will over-write it.

Be sure that the Windows boot item is before, or after, the "automagic kernels" section. You can edit menu.lst using

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Let us know if that is the problem, or not.

[bapoumba]

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Just a safe note:

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst