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Re: People having trouble with dualboots?

 

Hi zoltan,
nice to hear your problem is solved now.This problem is pretty big for first time users and I think affects every dualboot user.Should we post this (with the fix) on the lubuntu website or on a blog like OMG ubuntu?
-Glenn

> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:15:20 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] People having trouble with dualboots?
> From: matlakzoli@xxxxxxxxx
> To: glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi,
> I had the same issue, after installing Lubuntu to a new partition, my
> existing Ubuntu 10.10 installation was not recognized (I could only
> boot to Lubuntu). After I installed os-prober, did an update-grub, and
> I can dual boot. Thanks for your help.
> Zoltan
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Glenn de Groot
> <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > when I went to Lubuntu 10.10 (Unity kills my netbook), windows 7 was not in
> > the menu.
> > After installing and running os-prober and updating grub all worked nicely
> > again.
> > But when I look on the ubuntu forum many people have this problem.
> > Why isn´t os-prober in the default install?
> > It is in Ubuntu, as far as I know.
> > -Glenn
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