Grub2 manually add windows 7

 · In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with GRUB 2, add and remove menu entries, customize titles and boot options, dual-boot and triple-boot operating systems, combine legacy GRUB and GRUB 2, and we will even see how Windows fits into this scheme. After that, we will learn how to recover from errors and mistakes. Follow me.  · run update-grub; It should detect Windows on the first Disk, and add an entry to the boot-loader choices. And you could then optionally install grub also to the other disk boot sector by running grub-install /dev/sdb. sdb is what I assume to be the device node for the second attached disk, else try sda.  · How can I add windows 7 to boot in Grub2 manually? If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Manually adding an entry for Windows 7 to an Ubuntu GRUB2 menu Novem September 7, 5 comments A recent endeavour of mine has been to set up a dual-booting arrangement on my Toshiba Equium laptop with Ubuntu and Windows 7 on there side by side. First, check the UUID of the root partition that belongs to Linux os you would like to add to grub entry. Use blkid command: sudo blkid. Uuid for the root partition of my Gentoo is a7abba9f8-bfbca3f0e. Now mount root partiton for that Linux system and check the name of executable Linux kernel under /boot directory. For Windows, you should download the latest version of Grub2 here. It supports Windows 7, 8, and Windows 10, not yet tested on Windows XP. Once downloaded, you need to extract the downloaded file above. Here I will extract the grubfor-windows directory to the C: drive. Install Grub2. We will now start installing Grub2.

By around , GNU/Linux distributions started to use GRUB 2 to limited extents menuentry "Windows 7" { insmod ntfs search --set=root --label WINDOWS_7. May This solution provides a proper entry in the grub2 menu to boot into Windows A requisite word of caution, editing the GRUB menu is not. Dec See also the upstream document on grub2 and the grub manual. settings and the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file to add specific custom entries.