Xubuntu install on Win7 laptop fails

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> on Wed, 12 Jul 2017
14:28:08 +0200

> On 12 July 2017 at 01:02, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Update:
> >
> > I discovered that the only way to control the boot sequence was on the
> > laptop's native screen, so that piece cleared up (it doesn't show on
> > the dock-station connected monitors).
> >
> > The file systems looked fine, so I did the grub-install to no effect.
> 
> What was the *exact* command?
> 
> > The laptop still boots straight into Windows.
> >
> > I looked at the partition layout and this might be part of it:
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
> > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > Disklabel type: gpt
> > Disk identifier: F3DB32EB-3851-4CC0-A57E-0B50C27DC6F3
> >
> > Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
> > /dev/sda1       2048    206847    204800   100M EFI System
> > /dev/sda2     206848    468991    262144   128M Microsoft reserved
> > /dev/sda3     468992 502231039 501762048 239.3G Microsoft basic data
> > /dev/sda4  943554560 976773119  33218560  15.9G Microsoft basic data
> > /dev/sda5  502231040 502233087      2048     1M BIOS boot
> > /dev/sda6  502233088 935806975 433573888 206.8G Linux filesystem
> > /dev/sda7  935806976 943554559   7747584   3.7G Linux swap
> >
> > Partition table entries are not in disk order.
> 
> That last line is a danger sign although not necessarily fatal.

I don't know if it is a danger sign but that is how gparted does things and the
partitioning program the installer uses. I can not speak to other partitioning
programs because I have only used gparted but I think it is because of the
brain dead method of assigning partition names by linux and I was very
surprised by this when I started using Ubuntu.

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