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Thread ID: 136079 2014-01-17 04:38:00 Zorin Installation Dual Boot with XP -Help Please smurf (6545) Press F1
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1365370 2014-01-17 18:41:00 I'm not sure exactly how, but my computer friend did it from the BIOS Tony.s (17205)
1365371 2014-01-17 20:36:00 I have several windows systems here which have been dual booted with various versions of linux.
Have encountered this problem several times when changing to a different version of linux.
I have found "Linux Boot Repair" will sort it out.
I also install "Grub Customizer" in case I should wont to change the boot order or the time delay on the boot screen.
Driftwood (5551)
1365372 2014-01-17 23:07:00 Ok...Fred did this this morning and got this result:

jill@jill-ES004AA-ABG-m7369a:~$ sudo nano/etc/default/grub
[sudo] password for jill:
sudo: nano/etc/default/grub: command not found
jill@jill-ES004AA-ABG-m7369a:~$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-31-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-31-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows XP Media Center Edition on /dev/sda1
Found Windows NT/2000/XP on /dev/sda2
done


Any comment please?
smurf (6545)
1365373 2014-01-17 23:43:00 Yep.
Spaces are important. :)

'nano' is the command '/etc/default/grub' is the file you are feeding to it:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
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