Re: Adding Windows 7 and Windows 8 as seperate OS's in GRUB
The Win8 boot selection screen looks different from Win7 because it is an entirely NEW boot loader. Linux stuff that used to work with Win7 does not work with Win8.
You can TRY to fix that by using the option in Win8 to select Win7 as the default OS. What that actually does is switch you back to using the previous Win7 boot loader.
However, I don't think you can do what you want because GRUB will only point to a partition, and Win8 reused the Win7 partition to add its boot loader stuff.
Also, the Win8 Consumer Preview (MS's NEW term for BETA) is coming out on the 29th. So, I would leave it alone for now and consider removing Win8 DP and replacing it with Win8 CP. That is likely to have even MORE changes to the boot loader.
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