My grub version is 1.97~beta4, so I assume that's GRUB2 (as the legacy one is 0.97). I've been dual-booting with Windows 7 (and Vista before it) for two years now, with no problem. I'll try an upgrade, and see what happens. Also, what's the best method of preserving one's /home profile? I assume it's by entering the same username/password that was used previously -- that seemed to work fine in a VM. And is it possible to see where the bootloader is currently installed? I suspect I installed to the MBR because my recovery partition doesn't work properly. Oh, and to Ewen: I have an Asus F3Ke (from the X53K series). The chipset seem to be ATi, given by lspci: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Sandy On 15/10/10 12:04, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
I still would not expect (perhaps Liz can correct me if I'm wrong) that the version of Ubuntu is going to make the slightest difference as far as Windows overwriting it. The problem is in Windows and it's total blindness to other OS'es, not in Ubuntu or GRUB. If you don't have the problem already then I doubt upgrading Ubuntu is going to create one.
Possible exception if Windows is aware of the original GRUB bootloader but doesn't recognise GRUB2, in which case you might be able to upgrade Ubuntu and then reinstall grub-legacy?