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Hi folks,

First I installed Win XP in /dev/sda5, Win Vista in /dev/sda6 and Win 7 in /dev/sda7.
Then I installed Linux Ubuntu 10.04 in /dev/sda1, mounting "/" in /dev/sda1 and "/home" in /dev/sda9.

How can I make grub2 to recognize all the four operating systems and use them?!

Thanks!

im@mycomputer:/# fdisk -l

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda2 1276 19457 146046884+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1276 2550 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 2551 3825 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 3826 5100 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 19124 19457 2682823+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 5101 19123 112639716 83 Linux

PS. tried many things until now, and no deal...
 
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Based on what I have seen in Ubuntu 10.04 (which uses Grub 2), it automatically locates all of your OSes and adds them to grub's boot menu. If it did not, try running this to rebuild the menu:



For your enlightenment the Grub docs are at http://grub.enbug.org/Manual


 
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I ran the command, but nothing changed...
Although the manual says grub 2 supports multiple OS, it doesn't tell anything about how to configure it!

I've read this too:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#User-defined%20Entries



Does anybody have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu 10.04? How did you manage that?
 
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I don't remember doing anything special. It was autodetected. Try "sudo update-grub".
 
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Kinildson Persegueiro wrote:I ran the command, but nothing changed...
Although the manual says grub 2 supports multiple OS, it doesn't tell anything about how to configure it!

I've read this too:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#User-defined%20Entries



Does anybody have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu 10.04? How did you manage that?



I'm currrently dualbooting Win7/Fedora,Windows 7 is on the C: Drive and fedora is on sda5,I guess


your windows installation(s) should be detected by the ubuntu installer

If not,then I fear that you may've lost your installations
 
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Almost there!

I've edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom



Then



Now I can pick an entry from Grub's menu, Linux is fine but all the Windows leads to a blank screen!
I guess the "menuentry" needs more parameters, well, I'm still searching through the web...

 
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Personally, I would look at, and debug, 30_os-prober to figure out why it is not recognizing the the Windows OSes that you have on your system. You might also have to go to a grub command line and run some grub commands to figure out exactly what will work.
 
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30_os-prober is executed when I run "grub-mkconfig", right?
I have no idea why it is not recognizing the other OSes and either how to debug the file...

I've tried to boot Win XP, but it didn't work...
 
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Kinildson Persegueiro wrote:30_os-prober is executed when I run "grub-mkconfig", right?


Yes. But to debug it you can run it by itself.

I have no idea why ... how to debug the file...


The file is a shell script. You can run the individual commands that it is running to see what they do. You can add "echo" statements in key locations to understand the flow and data. I'm sure there are other possibilities. (I saw something about a debug option for grub in the docs...)
 
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