I did a clean install of Windows 7 on the same hard drive. I followed the instructions at:
http://www.howtogeek.com/114884/how-to-repair-grub2-when-ubuntu-wont-boot/
I followed the terminal instructions to restore grub bootloader.
Whenever I reboot. I see two entries of Windows 7 on Grub. I don't recall seeing this the last time. I am aware that Windows creates a 'System Reserved' partition (which is currently on sda1).
When I select either of the two boot options, Windows 7 boots fine (so it seems).
This is what update-grub
returns:
$ sudo update-grub | tee ~/update-grub.txt
[sudo] password for christian:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-29-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-27-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-27-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-19-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
done
Will booting from the System Reserved cause any issues on Windows?
Why are there two entries of Windows 7 instead of 1? Should I have installed Windows 7 without creating a system reserved partition? Is that even an option?
I am on Ubuntu 13.04. My other Ubuntu machines only list down 1 entry for Windows 7. Ideally, if it had to list down 2 entries. It would be better if it displayed as:
Found Windows 7 (System Reserved) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda2
Can this changes be made via a Grub configuration file somewhere?