[MLUG] installed squeeze, lost Windows bootability

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:03:12PM -0400, Patricia Campbell wrote:
> Super Grub Boot disk:   http://www.bootproblems.com/

That video tells me how to restore grub to the MBR.  That isn't my 
problem.  I have no problems booting linux through the grub on my MBR.  
But "Windows Professional XP" doesn't appear on the grub menu.

-- hendrik

> 
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just installed debian squeeze on my wife's computer.  It was the
> > easiest Linux install I ever did.  It was even easier than the time I
> > installed ubuntu long ago.
> >
> > Except for one thing.  Although during installation it recognised my
> > Windows XP system in the list of other operating systems, the actual
> > installed grub bootloader only gives me Debian.
> >
> > What do I have to do to enable booting Windows?  There doesn't seem to
> > be a /boot/grub/menu.lst any more; instad there are oodles of .mod and
> > other files.
> >
> > -- hendrik
> >
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