[ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

Daniel Case danielcase10 at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 13 20:09:17 BST 2010


Jacob,

Just install Ubuntu to a separate partition and it will wipe out the Windows
bootloader and replace it with GRUB. You can then boot both Windows and
Linux from there :)

Daniel

On 13 September 2010 10:01, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com> wrote:

> how do you get rid of the windows bootloader, I used wibi but want to fully
> switch over to ubuntu now
>
> On 12 September 2010 22:51, Daniel Case <danielcase10 at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 12 September 2010 21:50, Glen Mehn <glen.mehn at oba.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>  Will work just fine.
>>
>>
>> If you install via wubi Windows keeps the bootloader, Windows is pretty
>> aware of what is Windows and what is a recovery partition. If you were to
>> dual-boot using the GRUB bootloader however it could cause issues, which is
>> where problems start arising because of a Windows recov parition. However
>> installing via wubi will be fine :)
>>
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