Recently, I installed Lubuntu 10.10 as a dual boot to Windows 7 on my laptop as a replacement to Linux Mint. Everything seemed to go well until I rebooted and noticed that Windows 7 was no longer listed in the menu options of the GRUB boot manager.
Windows wasn’t gone, but GRUB had failed to detect it because Lubuntu had neglected to install a necessary program: os-prober.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install os-prober
sudo update-grub
Fixed. And while you’re down there, add some other useful stuff:
sudo wget –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get –quiet update && sudo apt-get –yes –quiet –allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo
apt-get –quiet update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs libdvdcss2 flashplugin-installer gstreamer0.10-alsa
Those will come in handy sooner than later.
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