Mars92
January 17th, 2010, 10:18 PM
After recently getting my flash new rig, I figured I could solve a lot of problem by Condensing my my recording laptop (Running Ubuntu 9.04) onto the large amounts of space on my new computer, thus having to dual boot with Windows 7 Professional, which was already installed and with too much time already invested in it to even consider doing a clean install.
I continued the way you would dual booting anything else, but to no end, as the Windows 7 bootloader doesn't seem to pick up on the Ubuntu install, and continues on it's merry way, booting Windows 7 and not givng me any options.
My better-at-tech brother told me that Microsoft did some big changes to the Windows 7 bootloader, which may be the source of all my troubles. after MUCH time spent googling the problem, I can't find anything relating to my problem, and strangely all the guides on dual booting Ubuntu with Windows 7 follow almost exactly the same steps I initially took to dual boot 7 and Ubuntu.
So now all this has caused my to run crying to the Ubuntu forums in need of assistance. Help? I thank you in advance for any light you can shed.
I continued the way you would dual booting anything else, but to no end, as the Windows 7 bootloader doesn't seem to pick up on the Ubuntu install, and continues on it's merry way, booting Windows 7 and not givng me any options.
My better-at-tech brother told me that Microsoft did some big changes to the Windows 7 bootloader, which may be the source of all my troubles. after MUCH time spent googling the problem, I can't find anything relating to my problem, and strangely all the guides on dual booting Ubuntu with Windows 7 follow almost exactly the same steps I initially took to dual boot 7 and Ubuntu.
So now all this has caused my to run crying to the Ubuntu forums in need of assistance. Help? I thank you in advance for any light you can shed.