Bug#587397: grub
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:11:07AM -0800, me wrote:
> As with the others, grub recognized my other OS (windows XP professional)
> when I installed 6.0.0 squeeze (stable) i386 I downloaded, but when I booted
> only Linux (& Linux safe mode) were listed and would boot.
>
> I have two hard drives: listed as *sda* I have windows on (and did not
> change it's partition table), and a bare new hard drive listed as *sdb* is
> where I partitioned/formatted using guided partitioning with LVM's third
> option (home, root, swap, temp, usr) and installed Debian. I only installed
> the defined collections "Graphical desktop environment" & "standard
> utilities".
>
> It was strange when Debian listed the two hard drives as SCSI1 (sda), and
> SCSI3 (sdb). My system has only IDE channels: IDE channel 0 Master - old
> HD with windows, IDE channel 1 Master- DVD drive, & IDE channel 2 Master-
> the new HD (SATA drive connection).
>
> Others have said they corrected the GRUB problem by "running update-grub".
> How do I do that? When I tried "update-grub" I got a "on such command"
> message.
It has to be as root (so login as root, or use 'su -' to become root.)
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Len Sorensen
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