[wellylug] Grub issues

[Ray Smith]

Thanks for the help, everyone. It's wai now.

Thanks again,
R

"*Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda.*"


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Colin Templeman <wellylug at biker.geek.nz>wrote:

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> Further to David's links, I'd also add this one which might be more
> appropriate to your situation and hopefully answer your questions:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
>
> Incidentally, be aware there's a further caveat with Grub2 if you have a
> machine with a manufacturer's recovery partition.  By default, when you
> invoke
> the Grub2 installation script it scans all bootable partitions and
> automatically adds them to the boot menu *including* the recovery
> partition.
> The labels Grub2 provides don't always make it easy to distinguish this
> from
> your primary Windows partition, so you can end up inadvertently selecting
> the
> recovery partition option and "restoring" your machine to factory specs.
>
> The workarounds are documented here:
> http://tinyurl.com/3t9tjce [Ubuntu forums]
>
> Personally I think Grub2 has become unnecessarily complicated for a boot
> loader.
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