ejn114
January 12th, 2009, 05:41 PM
Hi,
I have a desktop that's been running only Ubuntu from the beginning. I decided the other day to try out the Windows 7 beta, so I shrank my /home partition and installed Windows in the newly unallocated space. So, my drive looks like this:
1. root Ubuntu partition (~15GB)
2. /home (~525GB)
3. Windows 7 (~100GB)
Upon installing Windows 7, as expected, the Windows bootloader replaced grub and Windows automatically started upon bootup. I did a little research through these forums and the internet at large and found SuperGrubDisk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org). Using it, I was able to restore grub as the bootloader, but now only Ubuntu will start (grub doesn't see Windows). I can also boot Windows using an option from SuperGrubDisk, but I can't figure out how to get Windows to show up in grub as an option.
My question is this: how do I fix grub so that Windows is an option? Alternately, is there some other bootloader I should use so that both operating systems will show up?
Thanks in advance,
EJN
I have a desktop that's been running only Ubuntu from the beginning. I decided the other day to try out the Windows 7 beta, so I shrank my /home partition and installed Windows in the newly unallocated space. So, my drive looks like this:
1. root Ubuntu partition (~15GB)
2. /home (~525GB)
3. Windows 7 (~100GB)
Upon installing Windows 7, as expected, the Windows bootloader replaced grub and Windows automatically started upon bootup. I did a little research through these forums and the internet at large and found SuperGrubDisk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org). Using it, I was able to restore grub as the bootloader, but now only Ubuntu will start (grub doesn't see Windows). I can also boot Windows using an option from SuperGrubDisk, but I can't figure out how to get Windows to show up in grub as an option.
My question is this: how do I fix grub so that Windows is an option? Alternately, is there some other bootloader I should use so that both operating systems will show up?
Thanks in advance,
EJN