jrsmee
January 31st, 2010, 07:16 AM
Help. I new to linux. I previously was only running windows 7, and decided to give ubuntu a try. I created two new partitions, one for ubuntu and a third (largest) as a shared storage drive. I shrank my one windows partition, created two partitions in gparted and loaded Ubuntu 9.10. When I restart my machine, I get 5 choices in the grub loader. The first two are the Ubuntu ones which work fine. The new two are the check disk, which seem fine as well. The final one is Windows 7 (loader). When I select the loaded, the system restarts and I'm brought back to the grub menu. I think Windows 7 is fine, and I can access files from my windows partition from ubuntu.
In gparted, my partitions are as follows:
unallocated
/dev/sda1 system reserved (for Windows 7)
/dev/sda2 (my windows 7 partition)
unallocated
/dev/sda3 (where ubuntu is installed)
/dev/sda4 storage (largest partition, ntfs)
I believe these are the relevant lines from grub:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 4880e99080e98532
chainloader +1
Please help. So far I really like ubuntu, but am not willing to give up windows, at least just yet.
In gparted, my partitions are as follows:
unallocated
/dev/sda1 system reserved (for Windows 7)
/dev/sda2 (my windows 7 partition)
unallocated
/dev/sda3 (where ubuntu is installed)
/dev/sda4 storage (largest partition, ntfs)
I believe these are the relevant lines from grub:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 4880e99080e98532
chainloader +1
Please help. So far I really like ubuntu, but am not willing to give up windows, at least just yet.