removing Chrome OS

[Colin Law]

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

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