Ubuntu Installation :: No Dual Boot After 10.04 Install
Jun 16, 2010
I have a PC with 3 hard disks, one IDE (30GB) plus two Sata (80 & 180 GB). The IDE is the disk master. Previously I had Ubuntu on the IDE disk, the smaller SATA for Windows XP and the larger SATA for all data. I recently decided to do a clean Windows install and thought that at the same time I'd swap the two OS disks. After I successfully installed the two systems (Ubuntu is Grub 2) I don't get any options presented at boot up. If I boot from hard disk and choose the IDE disk Windows books immediately. If I try to change the disk boot order in the BIOS to choose the Ubuntu disk, nothing happens. Any idea how to get my dual boot back?
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Oct 19, 2010
I am trying to install Ubuntu on a machine that already has Windows 7 on one partition. Obviously I intend to install it on the other free partition. So I downloaded the iso burnt it onto the disk and pop in the disk and the boot the machine. The installation screen comes up I selected the first option (Try Ubuntu without installation), I just see a prompt after a few seconds and then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. Unable to detect a signal, The monitor goes into standby. The same thing happens if I use "install Ubuntu" option as well. I downloaded minimal install version Ubuntu and tried to install with that. since its old school installation, the installation completed without any errors, but when I restart the grub come up and when I select to boot into Ubuntu, I see the same behavior i.e. the screen goes blank and never boots to anything. This is a machine on which I was using 10.4 until yesterday.
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Jul 9, 2011
I'm having a frustrating time trying to install Ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows 7 on a new Acer Aspire 5750.The initial install proceeded without incident until an error along the lines of "Cannot install GRUB to /dev/sda".I continued without installing GRUB, and attempted to install GRUB from the live CD:Code:sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mntsudo grub-setup -d /mnt/boot/grub /dev/sdaThis installed GRUB, but only linking to my Windows 7 partition (sda2).
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Apr 12, 2010
I want to install ubuntu with dual boot.
I already installed the xp.
I followed this step.
Code:
Hard disk partition:
Selected first option "install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup." to get dual boot.
All went fine until when i click the install button(setp 7 of 7).
Installation window appeared and showed 1% in the progress bar.
Then one blank screen appeared and go to Ubuntu Desktop.
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Jul 9, 2011
I want to install ubuntu as a dual boot OS (running Windows 7 at the moment). What would be the best way for me to do this? Would it be the windows installer option Ubuntu has?
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Mar 27, 2010
I need to re-install ubuntu but I also have windows on the same computer(GRUB). Can I just boot from cd? Is there and option in the live cd for reinstalls or do I have to destroy the partition?
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May 3, 2010
I FINALLY convinced my wife to try Ubuntu on her laptop. We selected Install 10.4 side-by-side with XP. The grub menu shows up, but Windows is not listed. She's happy with Ubuntu so far, but I'd like to know why I can't use XP anymore. btw, I actually made the mistake of using the import accounts option, which filled up the new partition and made Ubuntu unbootable. I deleted some things from the command prompt, and it's running fine now.HP Pavilion1.5 GHz512MB Ram
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Jun 14, 2010
I am running Windows 7 starter on my Samsung N150 Netbook. I have successfully installed Ubuntu on the 4 GB flash drive, and I have been running it for several weeks in the "try mode" without any problems. Now I decided to permanently install Ubuntu netbook edition on my computer from a flash drive. I am following this guide [url] and ran into a big problem on step #5 of the guide and step #4 of the installation. I am not getting the option of installing them side by side, choose between them each startup! Which is what I want to do... I am only getting the option of erase and use entire drive, and specify partitions manually. My goal is to keep Windows 7 on my netbook, and have an option of dual booting into either operating system.
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Dec 28, 2010
No option to install alongside another OS. I have Win7 Starter on this new netbook and need to install Ubuntu 10.10 netbook addition. Disk Management shows 4 partitions, one is C:, one is D:, and two I've never seen before they're so small. Is it safe to delete these or do they have a purpose for the current Win OS? I would gladly install the 10.10 to my D: drive which seems to be SDA2, the 131GB partition. What's the right sequence of partitioning and formatting to give Ubuntu the full install it needs manually? And what needs to be taken care of for a Swap drive?
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Mar 20, 2011
I am trying to install a dual boot.
I was unable to make any progress until I tried the f6 options.
Is there a list of what the f6 mean.
I am trying to install 10.10, dual boot with xp pro
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Apr 10, 2011
I have a machine dual-booting with a Windows and an Ubuntu installation on it. I want to reinstall Ubuntu on top of the existing Ubuntu installation on this machine so that I have a fresh install of Ubuntu.I don't mind losing all my data on my Ubuntu partition, but I need to keep all the data currently available on my Windows partition.
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Mar 6, 2015
Is it possible to install Windows XP on a machine that already has Debian 7.8? I find lots of articles on installing Debian after but not before XP.
I would like to get a prompt at startup to select Windows XP or Debian 7.8 and then choose which one I want. The reason I want to do that is because I have Guitar Pro on XP and cant find anything as good and also I want to watch Netflix and cant seem to be able to find a way to do that on Debian 7.8 except windows emulator which defeats the point of Debian anyway. Also my Epson V500 will not work on Debian 7.1 and I have tried everything, been to Epson, installed drivers etc..
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May 25, 2009
I already have windows XP SP2. i want to install fedora 10. how can i install it as a dual boot option. I current have
C: drive 40GB -- windows XP NTFS
D: drive 20GB NTFS
E: drive 20GB NTFS
tell me the steps to install fedora 10 as dual boot option.
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Jan 6, 2010
Can I install Fedora 12 on a clean sata drive and have it run alongside my current Windows XP Pro? How do I do it?
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Feb 14, 2010
I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.1 on an existing xp op. It is prompting to replace xp.how to install manually the dual boot with out replacing xp
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Apr 16, 2010
I have always use dual-booting vista--ubuntu, I am getting bit tired of windows, so I want to install ubuntu, specially lucid is coming soon. I want to have the possibility to install windows in case I will need it in the future, like working with Visual Studio, ubuntu always detect if windows is installed, if windows is installed first, does windows also detect if ubuntu is installed ?
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Aug 17, 2010
Im trying to install Ubuntu server for DVD/CD iso.The mdsum is correct: md5sum ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso ives 15342636441181f7a19c65984b44e24c ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.isoI have tried it a number of times and the same sequence re-occurs:The first error occur during �Installing the base system�First sign is a red screen displaying a �Debootstrap warning� After a few re-tries the system defaults back to the Installer menu:I then select to post the debugger logs to a web server that starts:the first sign of problems in syslog are:
Aug 17 09:35:35 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo
Aug 17 09:35:37 hw-detect: Loading PCMCIA bridge driver module: i82365
Aug 17 09:35:37 kernel: [ 268.912151] Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
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Feb 23, 2011
So heres the thread i had a while back ( url) that had you guys help me setup the pretty standard dual boot of Win 7 and Ubuntu. I have 2 hard drives, main one (640gig) and backup (80gb). I have Win7 installed on the 640 and ubuntu on the 80.
So i have tried installing the SP1 twice today and it has failed. When i click on details on why it failed, it says: url
I can only imagine that this has to do with my Dual Boot. Is there anything i can do or am i stuck? I THINK that my grub and master boot and all that was on the second hard drive and it is the first drive in line to boot up...so i thought i wouldnt have any issues. Not totally sure though.
Im tempted to just remove Ubuntu, its cool to say i have it, but i honestly havent loaded up onto it more than 5 times since i installed it. When you have windows already...its near impossible to want to get onto a free OS that doesnt have the codecs or programs and im not familiar with it. If it was all i had though, (aka didnt own Windows) then obviously it would be my main OS and im sure id love it and have is customized and perfect.
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Jun 2, 2011
I am currently with Wubi 10.04 under Vista and my Dell XPS 630i has a 1 TB Nvidia RAID controller.First image (Option A) suggests /dev/sda as device for boot loader installation, while second image (Option B) suggests /dev/mapper/nvidia_bcidhdja.I think that the way of keeping the RAID would be using Option B as the device for boot loader installation. Would Option A break the RAID instead?
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Sep 1, 2011
I installed ubuntu 11.04 to my Compaq Presario CQ61-402SA (Dual boot with windows 7 Home premium 64-bit, Via a partition) And now I can't get back to my W7! Disk Utility says that it is "unallocated"! It had lot's of important info on it! Sorry for urgency, but it's important I get this OS and files back, intact.
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Feb 7, 2010
I am a major noob to FC12. I need to install Windows 7 Pro and FC12 dual boot. I first used the windows CD to create 1 250 Gig partition on my 500 Gig HD. Of course windows created the 100 MB system partition. I left the rest unpartitioned. Windows installed okay. I then booted to the KDE FC12 Live CD and installed FC12. I specified to use the Free Space remaining on the HD. The installation finished but now only boots into FC12 and does not prompt me for the OS I want to boot.
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Aug 21, 2011
I downloaded Fedora 15 Live and Fedora 14 Live to try to see where Linux is for music and broadcast audio on a laptop. It turns out I have to use 14. 14 and 15 both sort of work as live out of the box, although why they ship with the common Broadcom wifi driver missing and the touchpad tap disabled beats me. I also never found the magic button to close down 15. There must be one, but blow me I couldn't find it. Then I tried to follow the instructions at [URL] which mostly seemed to work. I need to keep Win 7 as this is the 32-bit test machine. I used EasyBCD v2.1 rather than the older version the guide is written for.
Booting into Win7 at first worked, then a boot into Linux stopped at a line that said something about a kernel thread helper Then Win 7 blue screened on boot, although it would boot to Safe Mode. Removed Veriface from the Lenovo laptop and it would boot Win 7. Tried setting Drive in EasyBCD to "Boot" rather than "C:" for Fedora. Now booting Fedora gave a Windows missing file message and croaked. Repairing startup with the Win 7 boot CD cured Win 7. Repeated the loop with the same failures. Re-partitioned and re-installed Fedora and just the same - a screen of text that stops. I can now boot to Windows and need help to sort out the Linux boot. How do I start to investigate the screen of text saying things like "__bad_area_nosemaphore" ?
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Aug 20, 2010
I have just installed OPENSUSE 11.3 from a CD to a computer running WIN XP. The installation completed and I got to a desktop. I then shut down. When I restarted the computer with the installation CD removed from the drive, I got the message "missing operating system". I ran the installation again, and have left it running. As near as I can tell, the WIN Partition is still intact, but I'm afraid to shut it down for fear I once again will not be able to access either system.
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Sep 29, 2010
Yesterday (Sept. 28) I managed to install openSuSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro C650 laptop, side-by-side with Windows 7 which was pre-installed. In brief I'd like to report the problems I had encountered up to yesterday.
1. Upon inserting the DVD and after the start of the installation the system would take me to non-GUI (Text) Mode and would finally respond with the message: "No repository found."
2. After that I tried to install openSuSE 11.2 and 11.1. There, although the installation went through smoothly, I had to deal with a new problem; when I selected to boot Windows 7 from the grub menu the system responded with the message:
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainload +1
BOOTMGR is missing
Upon booting the computer from the DVD with the Linux OS and before I hit ENTER I changed the Kernel by hitting F5 (or whatever key corresponds to Kernel at the bottom of screen) to "Failsafe mode". That did the job. The installation started and ended smoothly. Oh! one other thing I did is to edit the preselected disk partition and delete the swap partition since the disk has to have four and not five partitions.After that, I became root and edited "/boot/grub/menu.lst" file to correct the "(hd0,1)" for the Windows 1 to "(hd0,0)" since it is the first OS.
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Nov 5, 2010
I am very much excited to try out openSUSE 11.3.. But i am very much afraid of losing my data in windows partitions without knowing the exact procedure to install it..here are my existing partition list... Please have a look at it and suggest me..
c : 40 GB
d: 120 GB
e: 140 GB
f: 140 GB
and i have some free space of 28 GB.It is unallocated.I want to install openSUSE into this free space.Now please tell me whether i can proceed with the default disk configurations given at the install time or do i have to modify and adjust the partitions or do i have to create partitions for the available free space.
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Apr 26, 2010
I've just installed the 64 bit edition of 9.10 on my workstation. My raid drivers worked without any custom installation, which is very impressive! I am however having a problem installing grub2. I boot to the live CD, run the install process, resize and partition my free space as an ext4 primary partition with mount point /. Everything installs except grub, so I'm always booting in to windows.This seems to be a bit off as I've never had this occur with dual booting before.
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Jun 25, 2010
I just bought a Fujitsu S760 with Win7 on it. I need it for testing purposes, but for everything else I use ubuntu. So I need a functioning copy of that Win 7. The problem is, they've spread it in 4 partitions all over the drive, and I don't know whether I can move any of that stuff around without blowing it up.
Here's the setup (all ntfs of course):
Code:
sda1 16GB (8 used) winOS files hidden partition...
sda2 200mb boot
sda3 150GB (12 used) winOS, program, and user files
sda4 150GB (3 used) some kind of recovery partition.
So, unless I move something, all 4 primary partitions are already used, and I can't even make an extended partition for my linuxOS. Plus, I like playing around trying to make hackintoshes, and that would take a primary partition too.And one more thing: on first boot, the Win7 talks to the mothership and completes its installation. So far, I've only used the machine with an ubuntu livecd (looks like everything works, btw), and I don't know how the drive will look once the Win7 is actually functional.Can I just dump that recovery partition? Unhide sda1, move boot there, ultimately make it bigger, and move the rest of the Win7 stuff there? Somehow, I doubt it.I know Windows checks for uuid (and MAC data??) to make sure it wasn't moved, so I haven't dared touch anything.
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Aug 23, 2010
I currently have Windows 7 installed. I wish to dual boot this with Ubuntu 10.4. On a 120gb drive I allocated a large percentage to Windows and have put two partitions on the end; 1gb for swap, 15gb for Ubuntu. However, when I go to install and get to the partition manager bit it claims no operating systems have been found. Contrary to this, when I boot into the live CD it sees all the partitions, however these cannot be accessed and no error messages are displayed (However, accessing the Windows partition appeared to corrupt the install and I had to format...). When running install from the live environment the same no operating systems found error occurs. Windows 7 works fine and the drive is IDE (if this makes any difference).
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Sep 13, 2010
I'm having serious troubles to install ubuntu-10.04.1. My raid is an hardware raid with intel chipset. Note that win7 is already installed and working with my raid. I made some space from windows, to install Ubuntu (40gb). First, I run the installer, everything seems to be fine. I choose to install Ubuntu were there is the most space free (sorry, I'm not sure about the real terms used there).
Then my partition with the vista loader appears. So the installer can see my raid, and should work fine (everything is detected correctly). But once I'm in the end of the installation (around 95%), a pop-up appears, and tells me that Grub can't install in /dev/sda and it's a fatal error. I can choose an another destination, but it doesn't seems to work.
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Oct 11, 2010
Installing Ubuntu on the laptop said it succeeded and required a restart, then before shutting down and after the cd popped out a string of
end_request: I/O error dev sr0, sector 2xxxxxx...
end_request: I/O error dev sr0, sector
end_request: I/O error dev sr0, sector
Thing is, grub didn't install! I'm pretty sure a full install of ubuntu 10.10 in on a partition that I can't access. To complicate matters further, loading Vista necessitated a restart when it installed a "generic volume driver" by itself. Restarting vista doesn't show any difference (obviously since vista can't see linux formatted partitions).
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