[ubuntu-in] grub issues in karmic

[Hrishikesh Murali]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Moz <listmoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All

And it seems that the boot configs are changed. I can not find
> /boot/grub/menu.lst to edit.
>

Karmic installs GRUB2 on the MBR, not GRUB Legacy. The configuration file in
this case is /boot/grub/grub.cfg and the format is quite different when
compared to the earlier version. When you installed Karmic, GRUB2 must have
automatically recognized Windows, but I don't know why it did not happen in
your case. Anyway, you can specify the boot details for Windows in grub.cfg:

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menuentry "Windows XP" {
    insmod ntfs
    set root=(hd0,1)   [Assuming Windows is installed in your first
partition]
    chainloader +1
}
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If this does not work, then:
Reinstall GRUB2:
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/06/howto-recover-grub2-after-windows.html
See this also     :
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/28/windows-xpvista-dual-boot-does-not-boot-from-grub2-or-grub-pc/

FYI,
A little on grub2: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html
A good tutorial  : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Hrishikesh Murali
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