-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg King wrote: <snip> > > Upon rebooting from the Win7 DVD to repair the Windows install, the > repair tool could not see the NTFS partition or the Windows image. It > accepted a repair command anyway, did something, and said to reboot. > Upon reboot the std grub menu appeared and this time the Windows > selection worked (thankfully). There is something different in Win7 - I
Yes there is something different with Win7, starting with the 200 MB partition at the beginning of the disk. I have no idea why, but I seem to be one of the few people who does not think Win7 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Simply Vista SP2, big deal. Oh and the SMB/CIFS stack is broken again, thanks MS. > think grub may have corrupted the Windows boot image. So I’m back to > normal after wasting a few hours. Grub loads either OS as before. > > Has anyone else seen this? Ubuntu 9.04 uses Grub as opposed to grub2. Yes I have seen this. > Does grub2 work better wirh Win7? > Don't know. I have not had the opportunity to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my Win7 box yet. Perhaps this week or next. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktc8wIACgkQwRXgH3rKGfPH9wCghuSG2dugtCgGkt7HZhSa8cq4 KgIAn1ZC5XLxef1r0hygScXAgyYahf9g =kyCY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
