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Dual boot issue with Lubuntu and Windows XP Professional

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bazfile Posted messages 58509 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   -

Hello, I have an old Windows XP professional PC that can no longer connect to the internet because it is too old, so I installed Lubuntu because I saw it's a lightweight system and it supports the 0.99 GB of RAM I have in this PC.

I have successfully installed Lubuntu and yes, I clicked on install Lubuntu next to Windows and did not overwrite everything.

However, now when I start my PC, it directly launches Lubuntu and does not ask me to choose which system to boot into.

Can you help me to make it so that upon booting my PC it asks me to choose whether I want to use Linux or Windows?

Thank you for your response!

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    brucine Posted messages 24949 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 179
     

    Hello,

    It's a curious idea, you just need to install Firefox ESR 52.9 (of course from another PC and a USB stick since this one no longer connects with IE).

    In this hypothesis, it would be necessary to uninstall Lubuntu (and grub if we don't want any issues at the next startup).

    If we want to keep Lubuntu, we need to add the XP entry to menu.lst and then update Grub.

    https://linux.developpez.com/faqlinux/?page=grub

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  2. Un_gars
     

    No, you didn't understand. Basically, I installed Lubuntu on my Windows XP Professional, and I clicked on "install next to Windows" to keep Windows, but the problem is that at startup it doesn't do dual boot; it doesn't ask me to choose between Windows or Linux, it goes straight to Lubuntu.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24949 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 179
       

      It seems to me that I have understood well.

      For a reason that escapes me, perhaps because the Linux installation does not manage the booting on the old boot sectors like XP or earlier, it does not support dual boot, it starts with Grub, which is logical, but with only the Linux entry.

      If you want to keep Linux and XP (the issue of Internet browsers is not a sufficient reason, but it’s up to you), you will indeed need to edit the Grub menu to add the XP entry as I indicated.

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  3. Un_gars
     

    Okay, thank you, but can you explain to me what I need to do so that I'm offered the option to choose Windows or Linux at startup? I specify that I am currently on Linux.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24949 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 179
       

      Hello,

      The syntax is described in the link I provided in <1>.

      It involves editing the configuration menu menu.lst or grub.cfg via grub or grub2 depending on the age of the Linux version used and whether the grub loader is registered in the MBR or in the boot sector of the Linux partition.

      The principle consists of editing this menu with a text editor available under Linux, for example with grub and menu.lst if it is nano by:

      sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

      then updating grub by:

      sudo update-grub

      The details here according to the different scenarios:

      https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/grub_legacy

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