On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:38 AM, David Lang <da...@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, jelan...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted