I bought an HP Mini 210 netbook which is a great little machine but Windows 7 Starter uses almost all of the meagre 1GB RAM for itself making everything painfully slow. After a little research I found that the Lubuntu Linux distribution claims to have the lowest memory use of any of the Debian based desktops so I'm giving it a try.
I found I had to be online with an ethernet cable to finish the install because it could not recognise the WiFi card without installing extra drivers. After updating the software with Synaptic and rebooting I found that the windows options had disappeared from the boot menu.
To get them back I needed to run:
sudo apt-get install os-probe
sudo os-probe
sudo update-grub
Now the windows options are back in the boot menu!
