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Trouble dual booting Server 2k8 and Ubuntu

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nisargshah95
nisargshah95 Original post #1
Jun 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM
[SOLVED] Trouble dual booting Server 2k8 and Ubuntu

Hello,
I have an Ubuntu Natty installation and I installed Windows Server 2008 on another partition. So it directly booted to Server when the PC was turned on. So I used Rescatux to restore the grub. Now Ubuntu boots but there's no Server in the grub. Can anyone help me?
kisame
kisame #2
Jun 13, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Hello,
I have an Ubuntu Natty installation and I installed Windows Server 2008 on another partition. So it directly booted to Server when the PC was turned on. So I used Rescatux to restore the grub. Now Ubuntu boots but there's no Server in the grub. Can anyone help me?

Try this.
Add the following lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg

menuentry "Windows Server"{
set root=(hd0,1) //replace (hd0,1) with the partition of your 2k8 install.
chainloader +1
}


You will have to see where to paste this code.Wont be hard.
Hopefully,it will help.
nims11
nims11 #3
Jun 13, 2012 at 8:25 PM
simply do a
Code:
sudo update-grub
nisargshah95
Jun 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM
Nothing worked. So I did a reinstall of Windows Server 2008 and added Ubuntu to windows bootloader via EasyBCD. Thanks all for responding anyway.