dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7 (solved)

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>
> I had been trying for some time to set up dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 (with /
> on a solid state drive and /home on a 1TB SATA drive) on a new box using the
> Intel DB75EN motherboard with Windows 7 preinstalled. Although the shop
> where I had it built does not "do linux" I was able to interest one of the
> techs in helping me solve this problem. We were finally successful after
> reformatting the drives (previously with GPT partitioning) to the old MBR
> standard (max 4 primary partitions, max 2TB hard drives, etc.) and setting
> the BIOS to its "legacy boot" mode. After re-installing Windows 7 I was able
> to install Ubuntu 13.04 using the "something else" option on the
> installation menu (which I had been unable to do before). Now when I boot up
> I get the familiar grub menu with Ubuntu at the top and Windows as a
> lower-down option. Where Windows belongs, by the way.
>
> The tech said Microsoft considers Google to be much more of a threat than
> linux in terms of the installation of non-Windows software on
> Microsoft-occupied boxes. He also said dual booting a Microsoft OS with
> anything would be much more difficult with Windows 8.

THe tech is clueless. Sad... :(