Originally Posted by
rsearjeant
Just wanted to add my own note of thanks for this excellent script. It worked perfectly. My Acer laptop is now dual-booting Win7 / Xubuntu 10.10. Thanks for creating and maintaining this superb utility.
Because of bad experiences in the past (not with your script, I should add!) I chickened-out and went for the --no-bootloader option, but I'd like to tidy things up by installing the grub2 bootloader manually and getting rid of the Wubi install.
I'm still a bit worried about screwing-up access to Windows. If I run "grub-install /dev/sda" from the newly-moved Xubuntu, can I assume Windows will be added to the Grub menu and all will be well when I restart? (I'm 75% confident ... just need a little reassurance!)
Roger
It should be there already... try the following:
Boot your computer, select Ubuntu from the Windows boot manager, when you see the Wubi grub menu hit 'c'. This drops you to a grub prompt.
Now load up your migrated Ubuntu's grub menu (assuming /dev/sda5):
Code:
configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
This is exactly what you will see when you install the grub bootloader. You can then test out the Windows option and the rest before installing grub.
If you're still nervous then backup your MBR before installing the grub bootloader. But reinstalling the windows bootloader is very simple - I just use lilo even though I have the windows disks because I can install it from Ubuntu, and I've never had an issue using it.
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