On Monday 21 June 2010 23:56:53 Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello list, > > I have had a laptop wearing Linux solely over the last few years and > today I decided I'd install a Windows partition on it, with aim to > dual boot. After preparing an NTFS partition by using the gparted live > CD, I installed Windows 7 on the newly created partition. Thus, so far > I have the primary partitions /dev/sda1, an ext3 partition holding my > Squeeze installation, and /dev/sda2, holding my Windows installation. > There's also the /dev/sda3 "extended" partition and the /dev/sda5 > "swap" partition. Here's a gparted screenshot taken from within my > debian installation to prove my claims: > http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1819/mypartitions.jpg > > When the installation was finished, I would only boot into Windows 7. > Somewhat accustomed to this loss of the Grub boot loader, I booted > from my Squeeze installation CD, entered Rescue Mode and reinstalled > GRUB in the MBR of my only hard drive (that corresponds to the > /dev/sda1 partition). However, even though I reclaimed Grub, Grub > would not detect my Windows partition on bootup, and give me the > options of boot into debian. I tried reinstalling GRUB on other > partitions, but Windows was (and still is) unbootable on startup. > > I had a look at my grub.cfg and didn't see a "menuentry" corresponding > to the windows partition, even after running update-grub. What are the > steps that I need to follow in order to dual boot my system? The only > OS I have currently access to through Grub is Debian (with the option > of two kernels, but that's not really relevant). > > Thanks.
Try 'update-grub' as root Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006220054.29516.tchate...@free.fr