XP Not in menu to boot from

Asked by Ronald

I have 4 hard drives one 40gb has ubuntu 9.10, one 200gb has ubuntu 10.04, one 500gb sata drive has XP Pro on half and Fedora 12 on other half. one 500gb sata drive with XP pro on both halfs. I boot from 200gb drive and the grub menu only gives the two Ubuntu OS to boot from. The two 500gb drives do not show up in menu at all. If i put the 500gb drives first in Bios they will boot to XP Pro. The one with XP and Fedora will boot XP but not Fedora if that drive is first in Bios. Fedora 12 has never booted after installing it. This is the result of (fdisk -l)

ron@ron-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for ron:

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ac3e9

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 23330 187395072 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 23330 24322 7963649 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 23330 24322 7963648 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x140f140f

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4787 38451546 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4788 4998 1694857+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 4788 4998 1694826 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0b1d0b1c

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 31871 256003776 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x586e586e

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 38245 307202931 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdd2 38246 60800 181173037+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdd5 38246 60800 181173006 7 HPFS/NTFS

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Best sebikul (sebikul) said :
#1

try to run the following comand to update the boot list

#sudo update-grub

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Ronald (rbski69) said :
#2

I run it before and it didn't work. But this time it did. The only thing that did not show up in the menu was Fedora 12 OS on one of the drives with XP on it.

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Ronald (rbski69) said :
#3

Thanks sebikul, that solved my question.