Steavio99
November 26th, 2012, 12:17 AM
I believe I have the same problem.
I had a working windows 7 installation on a 1 TB hard drive, and wanted to put ubuntu on it as well. I installed xubuntu (12.something, it was the most recent as of about 2 weeks ago) alongside windows, giving it 100gb of space. It did some weird partitioning (list provided later) but in short I believe it has installed successfully.
However, when I restart, my computer boots directly into windows. I attempted to fix this with ubuntu's boot-repair utility. No luck.
I did a little research, and I think I am most likely having one of these two problems.
1) GRUB is not installed on the MBR. I was not prompted about where I wanted to install GRUB.
2) The partitions containing grub/ubuntu are too far away from the start of the hard drive to be detected by my computer's BIOS.
While I have enough conceptual knowledge of computer-related things to understand it when people talk about computers, my working knowledge is rather small, so I'm not comfortable following a tutorial that has a high risk of me losing my windows installation. While I have a full backup of my windows system, I am a busy person and don't really have time to spend all day restoring it or doing a complete reinstall of both OS's.
I haven't found a simple guide for installing grub to the MBR (which seems like it should be a simple thing to do), and I'm dubious about trying to move the windows partition as that seems like there would be a high risk of data loss.
Can somebody provide me with a quick guide on how to install GRUB to the MBR or a link to a simple tutorial (or a tutorial to solve whatever you think my problem is, if you have a different diagnosis)?
Some more information:
1) Attachment screenshot from gparted.
2) I have a thumb drive with fedora 17 on it that I can use to run gparted (hence the screenshot) and commands from the terminal.
3) From ubuntu's boot-recovery tool, the troubleshooting file: paste2.org/p/2522097
I had a working windows 7 installation on a 1 TB hard drive, and wanted to put ubuntu on it as well. I installed xubuntu (12.something, it was the most recent as of about 2 weeks ago) alongside windows, giving it 100gb of space. It did some weird partitioning (list provided later) but in short I believe it has installed successfully.
However, when I restart, my computer boots directly into windows. I attempted to fix this with ubuntu's boot-repair utility. No luck.
I did a little research, and I think I am most likely having one of these two problems.
1) GRUB is not installed on the MBR. I was not prompted about where I wanted to install GRUB.
2) The partitions containing grub/ubuntu are too far away from the start of the hard drive to be detected by my computer's BIOS.
While I have enough conceptual knowledge of computer-related things to understand it when people talk about computers, my working knowledge is rather small, so I'm not comfortable following a tutorial that has a high risk of me losing my windows installation. While I have a full backup of my windows system, I am a busy person and don't really have time to spend all day restoring it or doing a complete reinstall of both OS's.
I haven't found a simple guide for installing grub to the MBR (which seems like it should be a simple thing to do), and I'm dubious about trying to move the windows partition as that seems like there would be a high risk of data loss.
Can somebody provide me with a quick guide on how to install GRUB to the MBR or a link to a simple tutorial (or a tutorial to solve whatever you think my problem is, if you have a different diagnosis)?
Some more information:
1) Attachment screenshot from gparted.
2) I have a thumb drive with fedora 17 on it that I can use to run gparted (hence the screenshot) and commands from the terminal.
3) From ubuntu's boot-recovery tool, the troubleshooting file: paste2.org/p/2522097