dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/05/13 18:38, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

LOL!

"I think the devs have it all figured out better than I can."

Which is why you use XFCE instead of Unity, right? :-D

BC

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