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Grub confusion !

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/grub-confusion.78580/

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writealexthomas Original post #1
Jan 19, 2008 at 9:53 PM
I have two hard disks. My $dows hard disk is Primary and Linux is secondary drive.Due to fear of overwriting the MBR of my $indows disk(primary)
, I removed this primary Windows Disk physically and installed PCLinuxOS and later Ubuntu Gutsy on my slave Disk.

Now Ubuntu's grub runs when I run my system. Now I am pressing F11 while booting to select whether I need to work on Win or Linux.

My problem is that since I attached my Windows disk as primary later, my Grub is not showing Windows partition.

How do I enable $indows (in primary disk) in the grub of my slave disk??

Primary Disk - $indows - hda
Slave Disk - Linux - hdd

I tried using Super Grub Disk but got confused !!

Please help.
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Hitboxx #2
Jan 20, 2008 at 1:18 AM
Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file as root user on Ubuntu and add the following lines at the end of the file.

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot

Save and reboot.
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Jan 20, 2008 at 11:42 AM
Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file as root user on Ubuntu and add the following lines at the end of the file.



Save and reboot.

Thanks hitbox, after u'r suggestion it looks so simple!!

Strangely, this kind of option/suggestion was not there in "Super Grub Disk" !