I have see this in an ubuntu /boot/grub/grub.cfg, for booting windows: menuentry "Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,2)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 04ace963ace9502a chainloader +1 } Note: /dev/sda partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 11 88326 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 12 9727 78035753+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 9727 19453 78124033 5 Extended /dev/sda5 9727 19051 74896384 83 Linux /dev/sda6 19051 19453 3226624 82 Linux swap / Solaris