removing Chrome OS

[G.]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 12 July 2012 06:11, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 11 July 2012 19:31, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have Chrome OS installed alongside Ubuntu 12.  If I delete Chrome
>>>> will I need to repair GRUB?
>>>
>>> Assuming you initially installed ubuntu and then added chrome os in a
>>> separate partition then if you remove Chrome OS then I think all you
>>> need to do is to boot into Ubuntu and, in a terminal, run
>>> sudo update-grub
>>> which will search the available partitions and re-build the boot menu.
>>>  I am not sure about the situation if Chrome OS is in the boot
>>> partition however, if that is the case then I would take advice from
>>> someone else.
>>>
>
>>
>> I could not get chrome to install without wiping the disk.  I think I
>> could just regenerate GRUB and I'd be alright.  But that would not
>> change the fact that the disk was somehow formatted as a GPT, does it?
>>  How did it get that way?  I do not think it came that way and Ubuntu
>> would not install that way, would it?
>
> You said you had Chrome OS alongside Ubuntu, now you say that you
> wiped the disk to install Chrome.  You had not previously mentioned
> GPT so I don't know what that is about.  If there is nothing else on
> the disk just wipe it again and start from scratch.
>
> Colin
>
>>
>> garyk
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Sorry I have two threads going.  Ignore the GTP issue here.  I have
Ubuntu 12 on the disk alongside Chrome Lime.  If I delete the
partition containing Chrome will I need to regenerate GRUB (from the
Live CD)?  Chrome went on the hard disk first.

thanks

garyk