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jacobmh
January 11th, 2009, 05:50 PM
I have a triple boot with Ubuntu, Vista, and Windows 7.

The menu organization, when the grub boot flag is enabled, looks like this:

Grub Menu
Ubuntu-> boots ubuntu
Windows -> Win7 boot menu with Vista and 7 -> boots either windows

I have the boot flag set to the Ubuntu partition in Gparted. Unfortunately, whenever I select Windows from the grub menu and then select Windows 7 to boot from the resulting Windows boot menu, Windows disables the grub boot flag from the ubuntu partition, causing only the Windows boot menu to appear upon reboot.

I apologize if this is an old question by now, but how can I get either Windows 7 to STOP reassigning the boot flag, or else make Grub impervious to Windows 7's attempts to do so?

caljohnsmith
January 11th, 2009, 06:46 PM
It sounds like your problem might be a simple issue of having the "makeactive" line the Grub menu.lst entry for Windows. How about opening your menu.lst:

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Find the Windows boot entry, and if it has a "makeactive" line, delete it. That should solve your problem I think.

jacobmh
January 12th, 2009, 06:08 AM
Will try, thanks. Last resort, I could use the Windows 7 bootloader and add in Ubuntu, which I know how to do. I just like Grub better cause it's more flexible.