Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500
> Mike McCarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Andrew Benton wrote:
>>> You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot
>>> into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows,
>>> something like this:
>>>
>>> menuentry "Windows" {
>>> set root=(hd0,1)
>>> chainloader +1
>>> }
>> Back when I was making a dual boot system, this didn't work
>> for me. I had a machine which "wanted" the Windows Boot Manager
>> to be in control of boot. Fortunately, the Windows Boot Manager
>> is actually a reasonable piece of software, and I was able to
>> configure it to load GRUB for me.
>>
>> What you suggest may work in most circumstances, and it's the
>> solution I usually see, but it is not a universal solution.
>
> I didn't suggest it was a universal solution. Windows XP likes to be on
No, no, I didn't mean to imply that you did. It was intended just
to be a heads up that some computers don't like GRUB. Dell, Compaq,
and some HP are like that, for example. The BIOS is Windows-Centric.
> the first partition of the first disk. On this computer I've set the
This is also true, and something to watch for. Windows likes to be
"in charge".
[...]
> However the original poster said he was using windows 7 which can be
> installed on any partition which is why I didn't put this in my
> original reply.
Not what I was referring to. I was referring to machines which have
a BIOS which doesn't like non-Windows boot loaders, and go into
"recovery mode" when they don't detect the Windows Boot Manager.
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