Installing Grub

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday, December 06, 2014 11:20:10 PM Billie Walsh wrote:
> I upgraded to a newer laptop. I had replaced my old laptops harddrive
> some time back so that the one in the laptop had Kubuntu on it. The old
> Windows drive was in an external case. My new laptop has a place for a
> second hard drive. I took the Kubuntu drive out of the old laptop and
> put it in the external case. The new laptop booted just fine from the
> external.
> 
> I have a cable ordered to put the drive in the new laptop. Once I do
> that I need to figure out how to get Grub updated to dual boot. I know
> that if I can get it booted into Kubuntu I can do it but not being any
> kind of command line user I don't know the command.
> 
> Open for any suggestions.
> 
> I know. I usually wouldn't dual boot but this laptop has capabilities
> that I need that I can't do with Linux.

If you can  select which drive to boot from initially, this might be all you 
need to do to get to Kubuntu and run 
$ sudo update-grub 
to  have it detect and add Windows to your boot menu.

Some options that might get you going fairly easily if the above does not 
work:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

I am not sure if UEFI will cause an issue
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI



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