LMDevlin
May 21st, 2012, 06:34 PM
Hi guys,
So after a long hiatus from using Ubuntu, I have returned to it by putting spare 160GB SATA hard drive into my PC and putting Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I figured installing it on a second hard drive was the safest/easiest way to do it. I installed it using the regular installation CD downloaded from the website.
An article I read on the web recommended that, when it came to installing the bootloader during the Ubuntu installer, I should put it onto the second hard drive- the one I would be installing Ubuntu onto. I proceeded with this, and checked that I could boot Windows 7 fine. I then used EasyBCD's GRUB 2 option to install GRUB 2, but it does not automatically detect Ubuntu, and instead tries to boot off what looks like every device and partition I have before failing.
However, if I simply use the BIOS boot menu to select the second disk, it loads into GRUB 2, and gives me all the Ubuntu options, plus options for Windows 7. Go figure.
I tried to use plain old GRUB and NeoGRUB in EasyBCD, but neither of those options work.
I suspect I was following some bad instructions, or I simply made a mistake somewhere, but was I supposed to have replaced the Windows 7 bootloader with GRUB 2, or is there yet still hope that I can use the Windows 7 bootloader and add a working Ubuntu entry to it?
I have read other threads on this forum before posting here, but I'm having trouble finding a thread which resolves my specific issue. Apologies if there is one already.
My disk setup is as follows:
Drive 0
Partition 1 (NTFS - G: System Reserved - 100MB)
Partition 2 (NTFS - C: Windows 7 - 931GB)
Drive 1
Partition 1 (Ext4 - Ubuntu - 149GB)
Partition 2 (Swap - 4GB)
Any help you can offer would be most appreciated.
So after a long hiatus from using Ubuntu, I have returned to it by putting spare 160GB SATA hard drive into my PC and putting Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I figured installing it on a second hard drive was the safest/easiest way to do it. I installed it using the regular installation CD downloaded from the website.
An article I read on the web recommended that, when it came to installing the bootloader during the Ubuntu installer, I should put it onto the second hard drive- the one I would be installing Ubuntu onto. I proceeded with this, and checked that I could boot Windows 7 fine. I then used EasyBCD's GRUB 2 option to install GRUB 2, but it does not automatically detect Ubuntu, and instead tries to boot off what looks like every device and partition I have before failing.
However, if I simply use the BIOS boot menu to select the second disk, it loads into GRUB 2, and gives me all the Ubuntu options, plus options for Windows 7. Go figure.
I tried to use plain old GRUB and NeoGRUB in EasyBCD, but neither of those options work.
I suspect I was following some bad instructions, or I simply made a mistake somewhere, but was I supposed to have replaced the Windows 7 bootloader with GRUB 2, or is there yet still hope that I can use the Windows 7 bootloader and add a working Ubuntu entry to it?
I have read other threads on this forum before posting here, but I'm having trouble finding a thread which resolves my specific issue. Apologies if there is one already.
My disk setup is as follows:
Drive 0
Partition 1 (NTFS - G: System Reserved - 100MB)
Partition 2 (NTFS - C: Windows 7 - 931GB)
Drive 1
Partition 1 (Ext4 - Ubuntu - 149GB)
Partition 2 (Swap - 4GB)
Any help you can offer would be most appreciated.