No boot menu afte installing

[simplex]

Hello,

I have just successfully installed LMDE. But what I miss is a boot menu to be shown after my machine boots. I have Windows 7 on my primary partition, LMDE on partition 2.
And I want a menu that lets me choose which OS I want to tun. Every other distribution I know has this feature to detect other OSes and to build an appropriate boot menu.

What now?

Greetings,
Simplex

[wayne128]

How about this? let the LMDE Live DVD check your hard disk and check where it was installed

Run LMDE Live DVD, on a terminal type some commands and post results

1. sudo parted -l

2. sudo os-prober

[simplex]

Here is what I get:

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ziegler@ziegler-NC10 ~ $ sudo parted -l
Modell: ATA WDC WD1600BEVT-2 (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sda:  160GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: msdos

Nummer  Anfang  Ende    Größe   Typ      Dateisystem     Flags
 2      106MB   25,1GB  25,0GB  primary  ntfs
 4      25,1GB  50,7GB  25,6GB  primary  ext4            boot
 3      50,7GB  158GB   108GB   primary  fat32
 1      158GB   160GB   1583MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)


i have Windows installed on #2, mint on #4. oh, I see that #2 has no boot flag. How do I give it one? With gparted?

There is another strange partition of 100 MB before the Windows partition. I could not delete it and give the space to Windows (with gparted). It is not listed here. And the inux swap is last partition, not #1!