[aklug] Re: grub 2 & windows 7

I'm glad you posted this. My free copy of 7 is in the mail and I was
wondering how well it would play with others.

-Ben

Damien Hull wrote:
> I installed windows 7 at the meeting last Friday. Stuck it on a partition I had set aside just for windows. Ubuntu was already installed. Once windows 7 was installed there was no booting back into Ubuntu.
>
> 1. Windows over rights the MBR and sticks the windows boot loader there...
> 2. Booted the Ubuntu Live CD
> 3. sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
> 4. sudo mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/dev
> 5. sudo chroot /mnt
> 6. grub-install /dev/sda
> 7. Ctrl+D
> 8. reboot
> 9. In ubuntu: sudo update-grub
> 10. reboot and hit shift to access the grub boot menu
>
> I think grub 1 used Esc to access the boot menu. I had to search for the "shift" info on grub 2. The update-grub command detects all boot options including windows. It created the appropriate config file. Down side is that it adds a lot of junk to the grub menu. It works and I'm happy.
>
> Hope this helps others...
>
>

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Received on Mon Dec 21 10:34:59 2009