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new install Debian Canterbury 2.6-586 grub took away my Win XP

i HAVEN'T PLAYED WITH lINUX SINCE 2002. I just loaded Debian Canterbury on my old HDD running as a slave to my Win XP drive. Where and with what can I edit Grub in this distribution? Also, what is the best edit to set Win XP as the boot first choice? My lovely lady uses Windows ONLY! Thanks to all...
Does /boot/grub/menu.lst exist on this distro of Debian? If so, where is it???
{The 500G drive is just Win XP storage}

# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfd9dfd9d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19456 156280288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1b401b3f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4790 38468608 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4790 4998 1675265 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 4790 4998 1675264 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf6794113

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 60800 488375968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

If you elected to install grub2
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
As far as getting windows to boot,
run
"os-prober"
then
"update-grub"

I've been told os-prober is done on update-grub, but I always include it.

Quote:

Does /boot/grub/menu.lst exist on this distro of Debian? If so, where is it???
{The 500G drive is just Win XP storage}

Grub2 has /boot/grub/grub.cfg
update-grub will add windows entry to boot loader.

Thank you EDDY1. I just updated, now I'll restart and see what I see!

Quote:

Originally Posted by hapibeli (Post 4311214)

i HAVEN'T PLAYED WITH lINUX SINCE 2002. I just loaded Debian Canterbury on my old HDD running as a slave to my Win XP drive.

I wouldn't be to worried about Grub at the moment if you loaded Debian Canterbury. Just so you know Debian Canterbury is an April fools joke.

Fooled me! :-) :-)
Thanks again EDDY1. I'm up on Win XP at the moment...If I could get a script to place XP as the primary, my wife would appreciate it?

Fooled me too.
In the link above under
Change script boot order by changing numbers

This tutorial was suggested by REPO on another post
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Another here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308665