dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Ric Moore]

On 05/28/2013 01:11 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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.

Yup, I quit thinking LONG AGO! Just let the installer do it's thing, 
which always seems to work. I think the devs have it all figured out 
better than I can. <grins> Ric



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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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