dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Christine Gipson]

12.04 LTS installed on Subvert, but someone is attached to my OS via my
Thunderbird Mail & Ubuntu One. It I'd a neighbor, a real stalker menacing
my machines for his/her own gain and entertainment.

sent from my LG SPECTRUM
On May 28, 2013 1:12 AM, "Basil Chupin" <blchupin at iinet.net.au> 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.
>
> BC
>
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