Grub not displaying list of OSs

[personalmgt]

Hello there, I have a problem with my new installation of Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu and Vista dual-booted in my laptop. Recently, Ubuntu updated my Jaunty Jackalope into Karmic Koala. But then I had driver problems with my WLAN adapter so I decided to re-install my Ubuntu partition. I have successfully installed Karmic Koala but then whenever I boot my laptop, I do not see a list of operating systems that I can choose. It just directly boots into Ubuntu and I can't access my Vista partition.

I have been looking around for workarounds for this one and they keep on telling me to look in my menu.lst which is where grub's configuration should be located. However, menu.lst is empty and there's nothing to configure there.

So, is there anyone there who could help me in this problem?

[benicio]

go to your grub.conf and take out the # in the

#hiddenmenu

or set the time out to 10 sec or 20 baka nagcountdown tapos di mo naenter to see the options

[vern]

Empty does not mean it should be empty. It's pretty trivial to google grub tutorials to point to your operating systems.

[r0mm3L]

empty? dibah naa mana dapat?

[benicio]

kung dual boot na naa ra na.
kung empty wahuhu..dina dual boot imong pagkainstall aw!

[personalmgt]

Quote: Originally Posted by vern Empty does not mean it should be empty. It's pretty trivial to google grub tutorials to point to your operating systems.

Already did. Most tutorials I see on configuring grub in google are more likely outdated as they don't really cover Karmic Koala. Reason why menu.lst empty is because Karmic Koala uses GRUB2 and it doesn't contain the menu.lst anymore, instead it uses grub.cfg. You can read it here: [ubuntu] Missing menu.lst - Ubuntu Forums

I can't mount my Vista partition(it says I/O error) in Ubuntu so that could be the reason why whenever I reinstall Ubuntu, GRUB does not recognize it and GRUB doesn't add Vista into the OS list.

Finally found a way to get back my files in Vista. But then I have to reformat my Vista partition again. Anyways, I've got what I need. Problem solved.

[7thheaven]

Hi,

Have you solve the problem having a multi-boot OS?
Here is the trick to have a multi boot OS Laptop/Desktop Machine. Just Try.

Steps:
1. Manage your partition with this setup:
1st - Primary Partition - BOOT - recommended size = 500 Mb
2nd - Primary Partition - OS 1 - (Size for your 1st OS/Distro)
3rd - Extended Partition
4th - Logical Partition - OS 2 - (Size for your 2nd OS/Distro)
5th...n - Logical Partition - OS 3...n - (Size for your 3...n OS/Distro)
(n+1)th or last partition - Logical Partition - linux-swap - recommended size 2.5Gb with linux-swap filesystem
NOTE: Don't forget to create a Back-up partition for your personal files.
Vista = NTFS filesystem
Linux OSes = Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4 filesystem
2. Install Windows OS's
3. Install other OSes and make sure that the last OS that you'll install is Ubuntu.
Note in installing linux OS: Make sure you'll format the linux partition with the correct filesystem and mount point would be / or root.

Now try this trick!!!
You can have more than 5 OS's in your laptop as long as you have enough Hardisk Space.

Here is a trick in mounting other partitions using linux OS.
Steps:
1. Open Terminal
2. Make a Directory = example: #mkdir temp
3. Mount the partition to the directory that was created = example #mount /dev/sda2 temp
Done! Go to the temp directory and see if it is successful.
Note: Type #fdisk to check the partition to be mounted. Just quit after checking partitions.

That's all Folks
Hope ma sabot ninyo! Thank You.
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[darkraven]

bro, basin naka hibernate imong vista, then nag update and ubuntu.

currently, i'm still in 9.04. and naka dual boot with xp.
if naka hibernate akong xp, d nako ma access sa ubuntu ang partition sa xp.

while reading this thread, nag-duha2 nuon kog update sa akong ubuntu...