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SteveDee
January 3rd, 2011, 12:52 PM
I installed Lubuntu 10.10 on a netbook alongside WinXP, and it worked fine until I did an update which included a new kernel version.

This resulted in Grub being reconfigured and the loss of the Windows option from the Grub menu. Running:-


sudo update-grub

...did not fix it.

After a bit of research I discovered that "os-prober" is not shipped with Lubuntu 10.10. This seems like a crazy omission as it is such a tiny package, and a lot of users are gonna need it!

So if you have this problem, install os-prober via Synaptic, then run:-


sudo update-grub

...you should see your Windows option listed in the terminal output...then reboot!

Quackers
January 3rd, 2011, 02:16 PM
This has happened before with Lubuntu, but it has also happened at least once with Ubuntu. Very odd!