On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:56:00 +0100 Norman Silverstone <nor...@littletank.org> wrote:
> > > > <snip> > > > > > Having done this, the hardest/longest part of this is getting all the > > correct drivers into Windows. > > What I did was plug just the windows drive into the machine and get that > > sorted with the correct drivers and updates. Once that was done, the > > windows drive was then set to be the second drive and the Ubuntu one the > > first. Once Ubuntu was booted 'update-grub' was run, which picked up > > windows. > > This arrangement has a couple of advantages in that it doesn’t modify the > > windows drive, so no fiddling with fdisk /mbr or what ever if you wish to > > move it later. and if there are boot problems you can just choose which > > drive to boot from in BIOS. > > > This is more or less what I did those years ago. The only part I did not > know about was update-grub. Does this work with the current version of > grub? > Yes, it was done with Karmic and XP. I couldn’t believe how easy it was, I was expecting to be editing assorted grub config files. Having said that, it will probably turn into a complete nightmare for you :D -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
