dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Ric Moore]

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



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