dual boot problem

[jl]

On 12-06-03 08:37 PM, Ralph Pichie wrote:
> After dozens of successful dual boots with Ubuntu and other
> Debian-derived distros (3D!) I've encountered my first unbootable
> machine tonight, with the little-loved error message "Missing
> operating system".
>
> I've got Windows 7 back now with the boot flag on the primary
> partition device, but no grub menu. I really wanted to try Vector, but
> I'm loathe to waste more time, as this is a new laptop that needs to
> be productive.
>
> Would it be better to try to fix the boot loader directly or try to do
> an Ubuntu install with or over Vector to fix it?
>
hi Ralph this is John Papineau from Ubuntu kootenay in Nelson BC Canada 
. You may want to try to dual boot you computer with Ubuntu Edubuntu 
12.04 . I have used this copy with many computer that was not able to 
run the main copy of Ubuntu. One of the feature that I like is that when 
installing it it will give you the option to install Gnome  3 desktop 
that has work better in some of the computers and notebook then the 
general copy of ubuntu. The other thing you may want to make sure is 
that you load first window then ubuntu . I also found out that sometime 
it work better if you partition your hard drive with a windows and a 
Ubuntu partition before starting to install windows and Ubuntu. I hope 
that this will help you

John Papineau

Ubuntu kootenay

technician