[Chester LUG] GRUB2

[Roger Gibson]

Thanks.  I have several partitions (deliberate choice) so will learn to 
live with this.  I can get round it by editing grub.cfg, not 'legal' but 
it seems to work.  I presume someone is looking to solve this grub2 
issue.  Roger

On 07/01/2011 08:02, Marcus Jones wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> The boot problem is a documented problem with GRUB2. If you have more 
> than 2 partitions, GRUB2 seems to loose the Windows one every time.
>
> Whilst you may think you only have 2 partitions, quite often there are 
> actually 2 to do with Windows alone. I think one is a legacy Vista 
> boot loader or something.
>
> Have a look at your partitions with gParted or some similar partition 
> manager. There is probably a small partition there you can actually 
> delete.
>
> Been there, got the headache to prove it!
>
> Cheers
>
> Marcus
>
>
> On 6 January 2011 22:50, Roger Gibson <rcgibson at talktalk.net 
> <mailto:rcgibson at talktalk.net>> wrote:
>
>     Using Ubuntu 10.10  dual booted with windooze7 and having probs
>     with GRUB2.  When I install UBUNTU alongside Windoze7, the
>     installation finds Windoze OK and it comes up in the boot menu
>     (Disc had already been repartitioned).
>
>     However if I apply UBUNTU updates, GRUB loses Windoze7, and I
>     can't see an easy way to keep it.  In fact if I do a sudo
>     update-grub immediately after installing, it does not find the
>     Windoze7 OS.  I think I can see a workaround by putting an
>     explicit Windoze line in grub.d/40_xxxx, or is that the official
>     way anyway.
>
>     What I don't understand is how UBUNTU 10.10 can see the Windoze7
>     OS at installation, put it into the boot menu, but then not see it
>     later on.
>
>     Another bug I've found, and still not fixed concerns Thunderbird.
>      With earlier versions of LINUX OSes I've had no problem directing
>     Thunderbird to the same set of data files via profile.ini as I use
>     with Windoze.  However, every now and again it jams in either
>     UBUNTU or Windoze.  It's as if a new flag has been introduced, and
>     if Thunderbird does not shut down cleanly, a restart from
>     elsewhere gets upset.
>
>     Any ideas?  Roger.
>
>
>
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