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xubuntu: Windows 7: Dual Boot Problem - Grub2 does not come up so i can choose the OS upon boot
i installed xubuntu on my windows 7 laptop. i freed remaining drive space - booted the xubuntu DVD and installed xubuntu on the free space of my laptop hard drive. Once xubuntu was fully installed, i reboot. The application just boots straight into xubuntu. grub never comes up to give me a choice. i have reinstalled grub2... i have tried to repair, but nothing seems to help. i also booted up using the super_grub2 CD, but the windows boot option does not work.
Try repairing grub with boot-repair (http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/), SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) or Rescatux (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rescatux.berlios/).
When you installed did xubuntu prompt you to install along side Windows 7? It usually gives you 3 options; try xbuntu; replace Windows or install xubuntu--did you get this? To recover you Win7 you may have to do a Win7 boot repair and then reinstall xubuntu (if above options don't work).
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thanks for the suggestions. boot-repair did not work, and when i installed xubuntu, it did not ask to install it next to windows 7. that being said, it did only install xubuntu in the available space - it did not install it in the windows partition. finally, the installation was created on a logical volume
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additional information. i did not use the live boot CD. If I can restore the mbr. boot into windows 7, and start over with the live CD, that might work. The question would be then how do i boot into windows 7 again?
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