Re: GRUB2 and Windows

I took a leap of faith (or folly, yet to be seen) and installed
grub2. I did this in an attempt to move from Lilo to Grub (as I prefer
grub). However, I didn't realize that Grub2 is vastly different! It
seems to be installed correctly as I have a grub.cfg file that looks
correct for booting all of my Linux kernel images. What I don't have
though is an entry for WindowsXP. How do I add this entry? Can grub
find it automatically?

I don't what's the current status, but I know that grub2's support for
booting things like Windows was somewhere between lacking and partly working
at some point in the past (a year maybe?).


Stefan


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