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Add windows to grub menu

So your dual booting windows and you want windows to appear in the grub screen at startup. Here's how you do it:

As root:
# nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add the following lines in wherever you would like the entry to show up:

title MS Windows XP
root (hd0,0) [note below]
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

(hd0,0) means /dev/hda1
(hd0,1) means /dev/hda2

fdisk -l to see what windows is on and change the second number accordingly

Yay!
Rating: 76% positive, 13 total Votes
Categories: linux grub windows
Added: on Mar 08, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: window grub linux add root

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