Grub not working

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM, dave boland <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
>
> menuentry "Windows" {
>        insmod chain
>        insmod ntfs
>        set root=(hd0,1)
>        chainloader +1
> }
>
> First, this is Windows ME, which is fat32, not ntfs.  Does that change
> anything?  I think the set line is ok (Windows ME is on dev/sda1 - the
> first partition).
>
> The next question is where does this command actually go?  The syntax is
> similar to what I have always used in Grub 1 menu.lst.

Replace "insmod ntfs" with "insmod fat" in "/etc/grub.d/40_custom".

# cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#!/bin/sh
cat << EOF
menuentry "Chainload WinME" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod fat
set root=(hdX,Y) ## where X and Y are correct for your ME partition
chainloader +1
}
EOF

and run "update-grub".