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Hi, I am a total noobie and want to try UBUNTU. I have a Triple boot system with XP, Win 7, and now UBUNTU 9.04. Everything works wonderfully except the ...
  1. 07-23-2009 #1
    hammar66
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    Grub does not recognize my XP installation

    Hi,
    I am a total noobie and want to try UBUNTU. I have a Triple boot system with XP, Win 7, and now UBUNTU 9.04. Everything works wonderfully except the Grub boot loader. It only shows the Win 7 OS as Vista(which it is) but does not show the XP Partition, however when selecting the Vista OS it brings up the Vista Boot loader and does list the xp installation. I guess the question I have is how can I get the XP OS listed in the Grub bootloader? As I said Im a total noobie and have never run Linux before so I can use all the help I can get.

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    You actually dual booted Windows XP and Windows 7 first.
    Where Windows 7 overwritten the MBR, and put entry in XP.
    Now Ubuntu will only detect Windows installation which had its MBR installed.

    You can put Windows XP entry manually in /boot/grub/menu.lst
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  3. 07-23-2009 #3
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    thanks, now, what are the commands I use in menu.lst to include the XP installation?
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