Grub not working

[dave boland]

On Thu, 05 May 2011 16:41 +0100, "Tony Pursell"
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:21 -0400, dave boland wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:01 +0800, "Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> > > On 05/05/2011 08:56 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> > > > Take out the # and it should look like this:
> > > > #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
> > > 
> > > I mean "put in", not "take out"
> > > As someone recently said, my english not so good.   :)
> > > 
> > > To make sure your Windows is there, try (do? might do?) this in terminal
> > > 
> > > sudo grub-install /dev/sda
> > > 
> > > Regards - Goh Lip heh heh heh
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > Goh,
> > 
> > Won't this cause Grub to be reinstalled and send me back to square 1? 
> > After all, the Ubuntu/Grub installer didn't detect Windows ME the first
> > two times.  Perhaps my head is still stuck in Grub 1, but I would think
> > that adding a line to the config file would be the way to go.  Of course
> > I have no idea what to add, but...
> 
> Is ME on the first disk (if you have more than 1) and on the first
> partition on that disk?  

Yes to all.

> If it's not, then you need some special
> commands to do virtual disk swaps. There is a bit about how to boot
> windows in the Grub Legacy manual
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/
> 
> If you are sticking with Grub Legacy it is the menu.lst file that you
> have to edit. 

I'm using Grub 2 (1.99 actually).  I wish it was Grub 1 -- I would have
menu.lst fixed and be happy.  Grub 2 is better than Grub 1 why again
(rhetorical question)?

Dave, 
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