Quick Debian Help?

Des_Zac

Des_Zac

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I have three partitions on my hard drive, one for XP, one for Windows 8, and one for Debian. I know how to change the primary boot partition in XP and Windows 8, but now I'm stuck in Debian and I don't know how to change it back to the Windows 8 partition.... Can anyone help me?
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Thanks,

-Zach
 
Des_Zac said:
I have three partitions on my hard drive, one for XP, one for Windows 8, and one for Debian. I know how to change the primary boot partition in XP and Windows 8, but now I'm stuck in Debian and I don't know how to change it back to the Windows 8 partition.... Can anyone help me?
:confused:

Thanks,

-Zach
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Did you not install grub? The choice to choose between the three should be on the grub menu when you start up.

Since you're in pure debian, I'm assuming you don't have sudo setup yet. (or you might, not sure)
So, as ROOT run (if you're a normal user switch with the command su)
update-grub


That will rerun the config for grub, and should find them should they not be in the menu yet.
 
So it found XP, but I don't see Windows 8, is that normal? Or is it that initrd image thing?
 
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Have you changed the partitions in any way? Windows 8 works fine with grub, it just list it as windows 7 (at least it does in my desktop). It seems that the windows 8 partition is missing the boot flag on it.
 
NyxCharon said:
Have you changed the partitions in any way? Windows 8 works fine with grub, it just list it as windows 7 (at least it does in my desktop). It seems that the windows 8 partition is missing the boot flag on it.
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Oh well, I guess I'll just go through XP and do it that way, thanks for all the help though Nyx!
 
It might be the boot tag it had, or maybe just a messed up copy of grub? IF it works, don't try to fix it though.
 
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