dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/05/13 08:29, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 05/28/2013 04:47 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> 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
>
> Ha! I DO install standard Ubuntu first, play with it for 5 minutes 
> (long enough to install synaptic), and then install XFCE. If something 
> goes ape, then I have the "standard" to fall back to, you see? :) Ric

I see, I see, even though I heard very clearly, "I hollered, "Don't 
look, Ethel!" But it was too late. She'd already been mooned." :-) .

If you were using openSUSE you wouldn't need to do what you do because 
you can install xfce (amongst others) right at the beginning as the 
preferred DE without having to go through the shenanigans which you do 
now :-) .

BC

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