Listing win Xp in Grub

[whare1]

Ok so i had a noob moment today i installed XP after linux as i needed to test some things got grub back now but how to list XP in grub?

Mint installed on sdb1
XP installed on sdb3

thanx in advance

hmmmm........

just checked Gparted to confirm the installs

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sems it has changed to sda2 and sda5

sdb was all used for /home (see screen 2) but now says unallocated but i can still access all my data

VERY odd

[viking777]

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sudo update-grub

Is supposed to work.

Can't tell you for sure because I still use the old sensible version of grub not the new nonsense one.

[whare1]

thx grub updated

Still have the other issue tho still showing the /home drive as unallocated for some reason and if i forget for some reason i could have alot of problems on my hands

[xenopeek]

Try what viking777 mentioned. Else do it by hand as follows. Either sda1 or sda5 is your Windows boot partition (as both are NTFS).

Let's assume the Windows bootloader is on sda1. Try the following (this is for GRUB2, which you have if running Linux Mint 8 or newer). Open Terminal and do:

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kdesu kate /etc/grub.d/40_custom

Add at the end:

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menuentry "Windows (sda1)" {
insmod chain
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,1)
chainloader (hd0,1)+1
}

Save & close the file. Then run to apply changes:

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sudo update-grub2

If this doesn't work, change it to sda5 (the (hd0,1) you will need to change on both lines to either (hd0,5) I think).

[whare1]

thank, viking777 quick idea worked just nice in mint 9 gnome i relogged and posted this from XP

as i said still have the other issue tho

[viking777]

See if this throws up any clues:

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sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print