Windows not showing up in grub menu

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hosa

Windows not showing up in grub menu

Post by hosa »

I installed windows after Mint and i was able to restore grub, so now Mint boots normally but when i press esc at boot for the grub menu windows is not listed..
followiing a guide online i put

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title Windows XP 
root (hd0,1) 
makeactive 
chainloader +1
in the grub.cfg file, tried again and it didnt work.

thank you,
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bigj231

Re: Windows not showing up in grub menu

Post by bigj231 »

You don't edit the grub.cfg file anymore. You're on grub2 now. Use the update-grub command instead.

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sudo update-grub
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hosa

Re: Windows not showing up in grub menu

Post by hosa »

bigj231 wrote:You don't edit the grub.cfg file anymore. You're on grub2 now. Use the update-grub command instead.

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sudo update-grub
thank you, it looks like it detected windows xp after the update. problem solved. strange, all the tutorials online are old .
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