: Possible Repost (Sorry) Windows 7 vs Ubuntu
From: li...@carltonbrooks.net
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 17:02:08 -0700
I have 3 HARD DRIVES. Drive 1 (sda) is a Windows 7 Drive. Drive 2 (sdb)
is a data drive. Drive 3 (sdc) is an Ubuntu 11.04 drive.
I just
Carlton,
Doing the sudo update=grub would have replaced the MBR on sda unless you
specified otherwise. That should not be a problem unless you actually WANT
to be unplugging and plugging drive to change what boots. The Win7 loader
it found for sdb is probably an artifact of how it was
The update-grub command (which just points to grub-mkconfig) just
assembles grub's config file. The MBR remains unchanged until you do a
grub-install, so your drives should be 100% intact unless you've done
something to them trying to fix them.
That being said, other OSes are added to the
First thing to try is to boot directly to your win drive in bios. If that's
goodthen all you need is to get grub set up.
On Jun 6, 2011 2:06 AM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote:
The update-grub command (which just points to grub-mkconfig) just
assembles grub's config file. The MBR remains
I have 3 HARD DRIVES. Drive 1 (sda) is a Windows 7 Drive. Drive 2 (sdb)
is a data drive. Drive 3 (sdc) is an Ubuntu 11.04 drive.
I just upgraded to 11.04 by disconnecting sda and sdb. I then installed
11.04. I then reconnect all the drives
After install I did a sudo update-grub. It displayed the
I have 3 HARD DRIVES. Drive 1 (sda) is a Windows 7 Drive. Drive 2 (sdb)
is a data drive. Drive 3 (sdc) is an Ubuntu 11.04 drive.
I just upgraded to 11.04 by disconnecting sda and sdb. I then installed
11.04. I then reconnect all the drives
After install I did a sudo update-grub. It displayed the
I have 3 HARD DRIVES. Drive 1 (sda) is a Windows 7 Drive. Drive 2 (sdb)
is a data drive. Drive 3 (sdc) is an Ubuntu 11.04 drive.
I just upgraded to 11.04 by disconnecting sda and sdb. I then installed
11.04. I then reconnect all the drives
After install I did a sudo update-grub. It displayed the
I have 3 HARD DRIVES. Drive 1 (sda) is a Windows 7 Drive. Drive 2 (sdb)
is a data drive. Drive 3 (sdc) is an Ubuntu 11.04 drive.
I just upgraded to 11.04 by disconnecting sda and sdb. I then installed
11.04. I then reconnect all the drives
After install I did a sudo update-grub. It displayed the
