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I installed Debian because Debian runs better on my PC than Ubuntu.

I installed Debian on an another partition because I wondered to dualboot with Ubuntu.

And after Debian installed, I see in the GRUB menu only:

GNU/Linux Debian 2.xx.xxx.xx (or something like this)
GNU/Linux Debian 2.xx.xxx.xx (Recovery mode) (or something like this)

And Ubuntu is missing...

Is there any way to add Ubuntu to the GRUB?

[I already Googled, but there's nothing about add Ubuntu to GRUB.]

The Grub version in Debian is:

~$ dpkg -l | grep grub
ii grub-common 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) 
ii grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
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If your Debian instalation uses GRUB version 2, then you should just run update-grub as root.

If Debian installation uses GRUB version 1, you'll have to edit its /boot/grub/menu.lst config file and manually add Ubuntu. Suppose, Ubuntu is on /dev/sda1, then the entry will look like this

title Ubuntu 12.04
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/grub/core.img
savedefault
boot
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  • There's no menu.lst. I tried command: nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
    – XeZrunner
    Jan 15, 2013 at 11:13
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    In that case, you might want to varify which Grub version is installed by running dpkg -l | grep grub. If it's 1.9xx, then it is Grub2, and you should just run the update-grub command as root.
    – mikewhatever
    Jan 15, 2013 at 11:16
  • Here's the output: ii grub-common 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) ii grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) sebastian@sebastian-desktop:~$
    – XeZrunner
    Jan 15, 2013 at 12:20
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    The update-grub has been worked. Thanks! :)
    – XeZrunner
    Jan 15, 2013 at 12:48
  • Great! I'll add it to the answer above.
    – mikewhatever
    Jan 15, 2013 at 12:53

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