Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Sclug] (no subject)

Hi :)
Err, ooops!  Scratch all the above advice!  All that is over-kill!

If you can boot into *buntu then do just get to a command-line (Alt Ctrl T
brings one up) and enter

sudo update-grub

You will see it picking up all the bootable OSes on your machine.  Even
Windows.  Job done!
Regards from
Tom :)



On 6 May 2014 12:21, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> This page might help
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing
> Section 2 on how to reinstall grub2.  SuperGrub might make it easier in
> some ways because it's more point&click gui.
>
> If it doesn't, or if you don't want to burn a LiveCd that only has 1
> function and that being to cover a fairly rare problem then the wiki might
> be handy.  Of course you can try either one first and then try the other =
> the order you try these different solutions shouldn't really matter.
>
>
> Chances are that you have been using Grub2 rather than Grub-legacy.  There
> used to be an issue between earlier versions of grub2 but those have been
> smoothed out for the last several years.  The *buntus (Ubuntu, Kubuntu,
> Xubuntu, Lubuntu) have been using it since before 10.04 (released in 2010,
> April (hence the version numbers)).  The 13.10 was released in 2013,
> October and was definitely using Grub2 unless painstaking work was done to
> do something really odd.
>
>
> Win8 and some Win7 machines use UEFI to boot-up but you probably don't
> need to know anything about that for the case you are coping with.
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/
> UEFI is MS's (apparently horribly broken) attempt at "secure boot", in
> which case these links might help learn about that a bit;
>
> https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 6 May 2014 04:38, Alan B <aboba0@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:38 AM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> >
> > > googling for "grub2 windows parition" finds several pages that look
> > > promising
> > >
> > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/110698/add-windows-to-my-boot-menu
> > >
> > > suggests running update-grub and it should detect the windows partition.
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 2 May 2014, jelang38@gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jon upgraded from Kubuntu 13.10 to Kubuntu 14.04. In the process Grub2
> > > > lost his Windows (XP) boot option. Jon is willing to use Linux but not
> > to
> > > > the exclusion of Windows.
> > > >
> > > > I also upgraded but I think I use legacy Grub as my boot loader. In any
> > > > case I did not lose my Windows (Vista) boot option.
> > Not sure if this is on target but... I have had dual boot for quite a
> > while. Windows 7 and whatever is the latest Ubuntu with Ubuntu being the
> > default boot. The Ubuntu upgrade to 14.04 broke grub so the machine
> > wouldn't even boot.
> >
> > After some panic I found some posts that help me develop the following
> > solution that was quite pain free
> > https://plus.google.com/101655558442054679206/posts/hGPDqdiRFRs
> >
> > The short of it
> > - created a bootable "SuperGrub" disk
> > - booted my system from it
> > - use BootRepair to restore the boot options/order
> >
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