[SOLVED] Missing menu.lst

[demon]

Experts,
I just installed 64 bit Debian Testing over top of my 64 bit windows 7, when I boot to system, there is no line with window 7 in grub. So what I wanted to do it, to fix it, is to add something like that to menu.lst:

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  title Windows 7
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1 

but I cannot even find menu.lst in here /boot/grub
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for help!

[milomak]

You say
- recent install
- Testing

which leads me to think that grub2 is what you are running. I run debian sid and the following grub

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grub-pc:
  Installed: 1.98-1
  Candidate: 1.98+20100804-4
  Version table:
     1.98+20100804-4 0
        500 http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.98-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.96+20080724-16 0
        500 http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packag

I suppose you need to paste the output of apt-cache policy grub-pc

[TobiSGD]

Debian testing uses Grub 2, which doesn't use menu.lst anymore. Missing OS after install in the bootmenu is a common bug, just do, as root:

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update-grub

After that, all should be fine.

[demon]

to milomak:

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 grub-pc:
  Installed: 1.98+20100804-4
  Candidate: 1.98+20100804-4
  Version table:
 *** 1.98+20100804-4 0
        500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 

to TobiSGD:
It helped! It is fine now.

Thanks guys to help me out!
I hope this "common bug" will be fixed soon

[bmc5311]

i don't think it's a bug.

grub2 and i have something in common - we both ignore windows...

[TobiSGD]

Would be OK, it it would only ignore Windows, but it ignores Linux as well. Hmm, what should I think about a boot-manager that ignores any OS but the one it lives in?

[MeanDean]

be sure os-prober is installed

If anything I consider grub-pc to be overly zealous in adding entries to the boot menu.

[StanTheMan]

With Grub2 (grub-pc) when you run ' update-grub ' this updates the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg which makes the boot list display. But this file is Read only.
There is another empty file /etc/grub.d/40_custom in which you can add menuentry paragraphs copied from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and edit them the way you like them spelled. What I do is copy all the menuentry paragraphs from the first to the last and edit them. Then I make two other files non-executable - /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ and /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober .
Then I run ' uupdate-grub ' and now the boot list only displays the menuentries from 40_custom .