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Most of the newer MBs allow you to select the boot drive by pressing one
of the 'F' keys. On my Biostar it's F9. So continually going into the
BIOS is unnecessary.


me wrote:
> I have Ubuntu & Vista/Win7 on their own hard drives and switch the
> boot order in BIOS.
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:29:48 +1100, "Rajesh Shenoy"
> <> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the reply, me. As I had implied in my original post, I already
>> have Ubuntu installed on my PC. It runs in its own partition with the Ext4
>> Jounaling File System. Wubi installs Ubuntu on NTFS which is not a very
>> optimised scenario.
>>
>> "me" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-wubi
>>>
>>> Ubuntu offers a Windows Installer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:50:43 +0000, Dominic Payer <>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> EasyBCD 2.0 http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=642 is intended
>>>> to resolve this, but is still beta and I don't think it works properly
>>>> yet.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/11/2009 03:03, Rajesh Shenoy wrote:
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know how to add Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (which I've
>>>>> installed into a logical partition of its own on the only HDD I have in
>>>>> my laptop) to my Windows 7 Boot Manager? I over-wrote the GRUB boot
>>>>> manager that Ubuntu installed with the Windows 7 Boot Manager using
>>>>> EasyBCD as it was a beta version of GRUB.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to add Ubuntu using EasyBCD, but it doesn't work (probably
>>>>> because Ubuntu comes with the new GRUB2). I get the error message "The
>>>>> selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or
>>>>> corrupt" when I select the Ubuntu entry in the Windows Boot Manager
>>>>> screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see below the current output of my BCDEdit.exe, after the attempt
>>>>> to add the Ubuntu entry using EasyBCD.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have spent hours wading through Ubuntu forums online, but haven't
>>>>> found anything that's helped.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> - Rajesh
>>>>>
>>>>> /************************************************** ***************************/
>>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
>>>>> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>>>>>
>>>>> C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows Boot Manager
>>>>> --------------------
>>>>> identifier {bootmgr}
>>>>> device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
>>>>> description Windows Boot Manager
>>>>> locale en-US
>>>>> inherit {globalsettings}
>>>>> default {current}
>>>>> resumeobject {752745db-b31b-11de-9d5b-da70bae64f63}
>>>>> displayorder {current}
>>>>> {752745e4-b31b-11de-9d5b-da70bae64f63}
>>>>> toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
>>>>> timeout 2
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows Boot Loader
>>>>> -------------------
>>>>> identifier {current}
>>>>> device partition=C:
>>>>> path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
>>>>> description Windows 7
>>>>> locale en-US
>>>>> inherit {bootloadersettings}
>>>>> recoverysequence {752745dd-b31b-11de-9d5b-da70bae64f63}
>>>>> recoveryenabled Yes
>>>>> osdevice partition=C:
>>>>> systemroot \Windows
>>>>> resumeobject {752745db-b31b-11de-9d5b-da70bae64f63}
>>>>> nx OptIn
>>>>>
>>>>> Real-mode Boot Sector
>>>>> ---------------------
>>>>> identifier {752745e4-b31b-11de-9d5b-da70bae64f63}
>>>>> device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
>>>>> path \NST\nst_grub-EA026E752C02C7220EEE70D326268063.mbr
>>>>> description Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
>>>>>
>>>>> C:\Windows\system32>
>>>>> /************************************************** ***************************/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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