[ubuntu-in] New dual boot installation queries

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  as per my understanding you want windows boot.ini/BCD before GRUB.. is it
>> ????
>>
>> I'm not sure about it.....  I think it is not possible ...
>>
>
> as i said earlier, have seen this work
>
> however i posted this to ubuntu forums and the solution is actually
> pretty simple
>
> see
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1590718
>
> at step 8  of Ubuntu installation- one must simply disable
> installation of boot loader
>
> then using a BCD editor (inside windows) one makes sure there is an
> entry to the Ubuntu boot setup (see
> http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/EasyBCD+Documentation+Home)
>
> easy peasy - atleast if it works
>
> so will let you know once i do the needful, now to get the cloning
> thingy in order

There is a version of grub for Windows (grub4dos) which is a small
application (grldr.exe). Not sure how well it works with latest
versions of Windows.

The idea is to add an entry to Windows bootloader that will invoke
grub4dos. Then grub4dos can have it's own config file (copy of
grub.cfg from Ubuntu) which will let you boot Ubuntu. This way your
Windows bootloader will always be primary.


Onkar
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