dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/05/13 04:31, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 05/27/2013 12:54 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 27/05/13 07:25, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>> This may be helpful to anyone trying to dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 and
>>> Windows 7, or even just to install Ubuntu 13.04 by itself on some
>>> post-2010 machines. At least the details will end up on the Web for
>>> someone having similar problems.
>>>
>>> I bought a new box with the Intel DB75EN motherboard that uses the
>>> UEFI standard and DPT partitioning for the hard drives. I also bought
>>> Windows 7 Home Premium and had it installed at the shop. My plan was
>>> to dual boot Windows and Linux as I have successfully for the past
>>> decade or so. (I still need Windows because some people I collaborate
>>> with use Microsoft Word, and LibreOffice has never quite caught up
>>> with it.)
>>>
>>> Back home, I was able to easily install Ubuntu 13.04. Upon restarting,
>>> I was booted into Ubuntu without seeing a grub menu page.
[pruned]

>> I don't quite understand why you had such a hassle with dual-booting
>> with Windows 7 and your preferred version of LInux, Ubuntu, installed.
>>
>> For Christmas I bought my wife a new computer (with an Intel mobo/cpu)
>> which came pre-installed with Windows 7.
>>
>> The day it arrived I installed my preferred Linux distro (openSUSE),
>> after making some room for it by shrinking the Windows' partition, and I
>> can boot between the two systems with ease. (Windows, BTW, is only used
>> to update the files on the Garmin sat nav unit I have.)
>
> I think the OP has experienced the age-old problem of Windows claiming 
> it's spot on the MBR as FIRST, if I'm reading correctly. You have to 
> install Win first, Linux second. Not the other way around. It's always 
> been thataway. :) Ric

As the OP states above:

"I bought a new box with the Intel DB75EN motherboard that uses the
UEFI standard and DPT partitioning for the hard drives. I also bought
Windows 7 Home Premium and had it installed at the shop.

Back home, I was able to easily install Ubuntu 13.04. Upon restarting,
I was booted into Ubuntu without seeing a grub menu page....."


Win 7 was already installed and he then installed 13.04 - just like in 
my case where Win 7 was pre-installed and I installed openSUSE when my 
wife's new computer arrived :-) .

Where the OP went wrong, I would speculate, was that when he installed 
Ubuntu he chose to install the bootloader in another place other than 
the MBR - which is why Win 7 boots but Ubuntu is not recognised.

BC

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