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baltej singh

11-16-2009 04:42 AM

dual boot ubuntu & windows 7

i am newbie:
few days back i loaded ubuntu ...ofcourse in a different drive then from windows...
but now it does not give me any option to boot into windows...
earlier i once loaded fedora 10 but that use to give options of booting into "fedora" or "other" ..but it didnt happen with ubuntu...
i am very keen to learn linux but at the same time i cant deny my wife her choice of windows...
pl help(my holidays are at stake!!):

mattydee

11-16-2009 05:35 AM

In Ubuntu, find the file /boot/grub/menu.lst

You can try to add an entry like this:

Code:

title Vista

root (hd0,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1

- title can be whatever you like.
- root (hd0,0) means 1st hard drive, 1st partition.
- makeactive (not sure what this means)
- chainloader +1 means that grub will transfer over the boot process to the windows boot loader on that partition.

This should work exactly as is if your windows installation is on the first drive of the first partition. If not, you will need to modify the "root" entry to suit your needs.

Hope this helps.

ronlau9

11-16-2009 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baltej singh (Post 3758581)

With version of UBUNTU are you using 9.10
Ubuntu 9.10 do not have menu.lst
Ubuntu 9.10 do have a grub.cfg
So you have to add in grub.cfg
Please use a real linux text editor like nano , pico or kwrite

mattydee

11-16-2009 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronlau9 (Post 3758621)

With version of UBUNTU are you using 9.10
Ubuntu 9.10 do not have menu.lst
Ubuntu 9.10 do have a grub.cfg
So you have to add in grub.cfg
Please use a real linux text editor like nano , pico or kwrite

Right, I forgot about that. 9.10 uses grub2 so the syntax is completely different. Please let us know what version of ubuntu you are using.

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