preserving dos partitions

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Tue Sep 28 18:21:28 CEST 2010


> Thank you Nicolas, that has worked but it would be good to configure that in
> the server.
> 

(keeping Nicolas' email for reference below)

This simply means that you should configure that in
/srv/fai/config/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/

Hope this helps,
Michael

> 2010/9/28 Nicolas Courtel <courtel at cena.fr>
> 
> > mamadou diop a écrit :
> >
> >  Hello, i have configured my /srv/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE so that
> >> after installation the Windows
> >> partition is preserved. I am sure that the Windows partition is preserved
> >> because during installation,
> >> setup_harddisks told me that the /dev/sda1 driver was going to be
> >> preserved. Also, i have added the GRUB class to
> >> my host. After installation, i didn't see Windows in the OS choice menu.
> >> There are only Ubuntu in the menu of choice of
> >> Operating Systems. What have i forgotten to do?
> >>
> > man grub?
> >
> > When using grub legacy, you need to add a few lines at the end of
> > /boot/grub/menu.lst, like the following:
> >
> > title Windows
> > rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > makeactive
> > chainloader  +1
> > boot
> >
> > If you use grub-pc, just install os-prober, and run update-grub, Windows
> > should show up.
> >
> > --
> > Nicolas
> >
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