Re: GRUB2 and Windows
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:16:27 -0600
"Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/19/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > > I took a leap of faith (or folly, yet to be seen) and
> > > installed grub2. I did this in an attempt to move from Lilo to
> > > Grub (as I prefer grub). However, I didn't realize that Grub2 is
> > > vastly different! It seems to be installed correctly as I have a
> > > grub.cfg file that looks correct for booting all of my Linux
> > > kernel images. What I don't have though is an entry for
> > > WindowsXP. How do I add this entry? Can grub find it
> > > automatically?
> >
> > I don't what's the current status, but I know that grub2's support
> > for booting things like Windows was somewhere between lacking and
> > partly working at some point in the past (a year maybe?).
> >
> >
> > Stefan
>
> Well, I'm using debian unstable, and with the latest version of grub2
> I can boot windows XP. However, it's not automatically. Apparently
> there's a bug in grub itself which doesn't allow setting a global root
> directory, and then try to set a different one in the menu entry.
> Nice thing is that on unstable the menus are generated by scripts in
> /etc/grub.d.
>
> So 1st thing is to comment the following lines out, as shown bellow:
>
> #if [ "x${GRUB_DRIVE}" = "x" ] ; then : ; else
> # echo "set root=${GRUB_DRIVE}"
> #fi
>
> >From /etc/grub.d/00_header. The 2nd thing is to add a script for the
> windows XP, which is not included by default, I named it
> /etc/grub.d/10_windows. The scripts are looked up by alphanumeric
> order I believe.
>
> I'm attaching both files for your consideration. I don't know if a
> bug needs to be filed, because I don't really know if grub needs to be
> fixed for the root thing, or if it's just debian script which is
> wrong. At any rate I found the work around I needed...
>
> I hope this helps...
>
>
I think it's on the right track, but I seem to still have a problem.
When I select Windows in list I get sent back to the Grub menu. Any
ideas on why or where to look for a clue?
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