Cannot start from 2nd default player

My problem: can not start from second default drive

I have a HP Pavilion dv7 1451NR, product NV204UA #ABA number.

I have two drives installed.

I have Windows 7 64 bit is installed on disk 0 and Ubuntu 32-bit installed on disk 1.

I can boot both operating systems successfully by following these steps:

  1. Turning the power on

  2. Press the ESC key for BIOS

  3. Press F9-go to the start menu

  4. Menu of startup watch two disks named "internal hard drive.

  5. If I select the first entry named "Internal hard drive" I start to Windows 7.

  6. If I choose the 2nd entry named "Internal hard drive" I boot to Ubuntu.

I turn on if I do NOT press escape, the machine boots to Windows after the timeout.

My problem: I want to start on default Ubuntu.

I checked the HP bios and I do not think there is a way to do it by changing the boot priority in the BIOS. The BIOS does not seem to tell the difference between the two drives. I have only has an entry for "internal hard drive.

In my view, is an approach that should work:

  1. Use bcdedit or easybcd to create a BCD record that points to GRUB.

  2. Create a configuration file GRUB that 'the chain' charges Ubuntu.

  3. Use bcdedit to put the GRUB entry as the default value.

I tried various permutations but cannot make it work.

Question: Should my idea work?

Detailed question: How to find out where the original boot image is for GRUB? I know I need the copy of sector 0 of the drive and the partition Ubuntu and GRUB on. Since Ubuntu I tried permutations of ' dd if of=/NST/grubsdXX.bin = / dev/sdxx bs = 512 count = 1 "to generate the boot image. Not worked.

Detailed question: What exactly should the BCD record look like? What commands are used to create it. I tried various permutations of

' bcdedit / create /d "GRUB" / application of the BOOT sector.

bcdedit/set {60e1c218-a9b3-11e0-89b8-00235abb6d44} device partition = C:

bcdedit/set {60e1c218-a9b3-11e0-89b8-00235abb6d44} path \nst\grubsdXX.bin

bcdedit displayorder {60e1c218-a9b3-11e0-89b8-00235abb6d44} /addlast»

I think I'm close, but can't make it work. My guess is I do not get the image of the right sector 0 in grubsdXX.bin or I am not the "partition" or the path correctly, or maybe I need to install GRUB on disk 0.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Refinement: I discovered how to avoid having to change the menu item, whenever you update the Ubuntu kernel. When it is updated Ubuntu creates a link in the root of the root partition that points to the latest kernel and one that points the last initrd. So if you replace the reference to a specific core (example: boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-48-gereic-pae) and initrd (example: boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-48-generic-pae) with "/ vmlinuz" and "/ initrd.img. Your menu will always be able to start the last installed Ubuntu.

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