Tag Archives: GRUB

Lucid Lynx (10.04) and GRUB on Windows 7

By jama22 | Published: June 20, 2010

In a previous post (Recovering GRUB After Installing Windows 7) I described a situation where GRUB would not be able to detect your Windows 7 boot partition after you installed Ubuntu.  The fix was to point the root directory to a small (or secret?) partition outside of the main Windows 7 NTFS partition. I recently [...]

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Recovering GRUB After Installing Windows 7

By jama22 | Published: August 27, 2009

With the imminent release of Windows 7, I decided to give it a try on my own machine.  Windows 7 RTM (Release to Manufacturer) has already been released through MSDN, and as a UofT student I was able to grab my own copy through MSDNAA @ UofT. A clean installation of Windows 7 is actually [...]

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