For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug Development Gutsy Gibbon CLOSED Question

Question For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug ( Ubuntu Forums Development (Gutsy Gibbon) CLOSED )
Updated: 2008-11-23 01:50:15 (6)

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

I didn't find a bug in Launchpad for this, so a few days ago I created one of my own. If you have used the Alternate CD (or either CD, for that matter) to install Gutsy and it didn't detect the OS you first had installed, please confirm your experience here. Let's make Ubuntu better!

Answers: For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug ( Ubuntu Forums Development (Gutsy Gibbon) CLOSED )

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

Just giving this a bump to make sure people see it. If you have experienced this bug, please visit the launchpad page linked in the first post to help get this bug fixed by release time next week.

Cable

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

this bug has been around for a long time, I gave up alowing ubuntu to install grub if I have another distro on that box. Instead I hand edit the other distros grub to add ubuntu.

ronacc

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

Mine didn't pick up Windows.
I thought it was a feature

floke

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

I left a mesage stating I had a problem too

spamzilla

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

Good job so far, we have some more responses on the launchpad bug linked to in the first post. Keep those comments coming!

Cable

For all of you dual booters GRUB install bug

I can confirm this too, after the setup with the alternate cd.
However to gain access again to micro$oft windows (why?) you have just to open this file and add the text that follows, save and reboot: you will have another choice in GRUB menu

Code:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

add this at the end of the file

Code:

title           M$ Windows
root            (hd0,0)
chainloader     +1

please note that (hd*,*) should reflect the disk [comma] partition where windows resides. However you can see where your m$ partition with gparted or via shell typing

Code:

parted

and then

Code:

print all

to quit parted

Code:

quit

/dev/hda or /dev/sda = hd0
/dev/hdb or /dev/sdb - hd1
etc.
partition number refers to the number you have to enter after the comma.

Anyway... there is no reason for which to miss windows!

aldeby

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