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Old 01-28-2011, 05:54 PM   #1
jahobjafwar
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grub doesn't see windows xp after install of ubuntu 10.10


hello all. recently i installed ubuntu 10.10 and now when i start my computor i dont see windows xp in the grub bootloader anymore. (it worked fine for 10.04) my brother as well has had the same problem. if anyone knows about this i would really appreciate some help thanks in advance.
 
Old 01-28-2011, 06:20 PM   #2
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You have to run os-prober for grub to find the other operating systems. Then run update-grub to get the other operating systems into the boot menu.
Code:
sudo os-prober
sudo update-grub

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Old 01-28-2011, 06:46 PM   #3
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