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I need help with my GRUB2 editing. I have WinXP Pro, Win7 Enterprise, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed on my ThinkPad R60. My partitions are laid out as follows:
My issue is i have 3 different menus when i boot the machine. The first is GRUB. If I select to boot win7, i get a second menu where i choose winxp, win7, or windows recovery console (which is installed on the WinXP partition). If i select to boot XP, i have another menu, where i can boot XP or the RC. I want to get everything on the grub menu, and eliminate the other 2 menus created by win XP and Win7. Any ideas? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance!
Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
Posts: 251
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3 OS boot with Grub
I think it's impossible because you missed a correct NTLDR installation since the beginning. In hda1 boot secteur, you should have obtained a NTLDR menu with all your micro$oft OS displayed at a glance...
You can't.
You apparently installed Win7 as a (M$oft terminology) dual-boot with XP. This replaces the loader code in XP with Win7.
Not a Linux issue that you can do anything about - just (another) M$oft fuck-up.
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