Add windows to boot loader

ahmed_as8 · 03-23-2009, 03:59 AM

Hi all I recently installed the GRUB loader once again so this new GRUB doesn't show the windows system in the Dual boot .. is their a way to give the boot loader the path of Windows system? Thanks

linuxlover.chaitanya · 03-23-2009, 04:08 AM

This does not give much of information to help you out.
Paste the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

Also which distribution are you using?

ahmed_as8 · 03-23-2009, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya

This does not give much of information to help you out.
Paste the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

Also which distribution are you using?

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf4a99057

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5100 40965718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5101 5361 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 * 5362 7971 20964825 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 7972 19457 92261295 7 HPFS/NTFS

Hence sda1 contains the windows system

sundialsvcs · 03-23-2009, 09:11 AM

The grub boot-loader has copious documentation ... quite seriously, go find it and read it carefully. There are specific examples of exactly how to deal with various versions of Windows.

No, this isn't "an RTFM blow-off."

(I have no need to be so crass.) You need information, and the information is out there, and you just haven't looked for it yet. Look carefully at the configuration-files on your /boot/grub directory and at the various copious examples that have been thoughtfully provided.

You need to make a habit of preserving copies of files that can be overwritten by a software upgrade ... specifically including your Linux configuration and the boot-loader files. You also need to very thoroughly understand what is in them, so that when something inevitably "goes wrong," you know exactly how to react. You need to practice these recovery scenarios.

reddazz · 03-23-2009, 09:39 AM

Try adding the entry below to your /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Code:

title Windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,3)
        chainloader +1

ps_sabu · 03-23-2009, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Try adding the entry below to your /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Code:

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
chainloader +1

I think it should be like

Quote:

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

palisetty_suman · 03-23-2009, 07:44 PM

Hi,
just go to
root/boot/grub
and then press ls command. you edit
grub.conf file
then change in the last lines where it is other to windows or vista and save and restart.
then while it starts with fedora in 4 secs etc, press esc and choose vista. Simple. All the best.

ahmed_as8 · 03-26-2009, 02:41 AM

Thank you all finally I got its like that:

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

ps_sabu · 03-26-2009, 01:16 PM

Bravo !