dot.man
November 24th, 2009, 04:43 PM
I am having an issue with dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 on an MSi A6000 laptop. My system flashes "Grub loading" on the screen for about 1/2 of a second and reboots, repeating this over and over. My system started out with Windows 7, freshly restored and defragmented. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop using the LiveCD (32 bit version) and used the Ubuntu installer to repartition sda3 in order to get space for Ubuntu to reside. I chose EXT3 filesystem type instead of the default of EXT4 for the new partitions. I have not done any manual editing of the Grub files nor is it customized. I had no issues logging into Ubuntu before now but I did experience the quick "blue screen of death" the two times when selecting Windows 7 and then the "failure to launch windows" screen, but I chose "Start normally" instead of repair both times. The last action performed before seeing this issue was choosing "Restart" from the Windows shutdown menu during the shutdown to get it to reboot so I could log into Ubuntu. After this is when I started getting the "Grub loading" and reboots. Below is the output from "fdisk -l":
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xad7aaef8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1306 10485760 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1306 16349 120833024 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 16349 32835 132421875 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 32836 38913 48821535 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 32836 33807 7807558+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 33808 34780 7815591 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 34781 38913 33198291 83 Linux
For clarification:
sda1 > restore partition from MSi for Windows 7
sda2 > Windows Vista partition C:
sda3 > Windows 7 partition D:
sda5 > Ubuntu swap partition
sda6 > Ubuntu "/" partition (root partition)
sda7 > Ubuntu "/home" partition
SDA1, 2 & 3 all existed prior to me touching the system. Again, the only change made to these three partitions was on partition SDA3 for space to install Ubuntu. I am currently booted using Ubuntu 9.04 on a bootable USB stick, so that is how I am able to get this info. Does someone recognize this? If so, do you have any suggestions as to how to fix?
Thank you for any input you may have.
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xad7aaef8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1306 10485760 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1306 16349 120833024 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 16349 32835 132421875 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 32836 38913 48821535 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 32836 33807 7807558+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 33808 34780 7815591 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 34781 38913 33198291 83 Linux
For clarification:
sda1 > restore partition from MSi for Windows 7
sda2 > Windows Vista partition C:
sda3 > Windows 7 partition D:
sda5 > Ubuntu swap partition
sda6 > Ubuntu "/" partition (root partition)
sda7 > Ubuntu "/home" partition
SDA1, 2 & 3 all existed prior to me touching the system. Again, the only change made to these three partitions was on partition SDA3 for space to install Ubuntu. I am currently booted using Ubuntu 9.04 on a bootable USB stick, so that is how I am able to get this info. Does someone recognize this? If so, do you have any suggestions as to how to fix?
Thank you for any input you may have.