popnbrown
August 14th, 2012, 09:44 PM
So I got a new laptop a Ideapad Y580, and swapped the HDD with a Samsung 830 256GB SSD.
Made a GPT:
Size Format Name
4MB - bios_grub
100MB FAT32 EFI
25GB EXT4 Ubuntu
85GB NTFS Data
130GB NTFS Windows
I installed Windows 7 Pro 64bit, all worked fine, had a bit of driver issue, but got it sorted. I then attempted to install Ubuntu 12.0 64bit, but the live CD wouldn't work. Gave me "Error: prefix not set" followed by a selection menu (Try Ubuntu, Install Ubuntu, Check Disk), and clicking any of them resulted in some error like "Could not find / root filesystem".
So I went and installed Ubuntu 32-bit. All works fine, I just have to go into BIOS to switch into Ubuntu. GPT now looks like:
Size Format Used Name
4MB - 4MB bios_grub
100MB FAT32 22MB EFI
25GB EXT3 0 Ubuntu
85GB NTFS 0 Data
128MB Other 128MB Reserved PArtition
128GB NTFS 59GB Data Partition (windows)
I now don't need the Data partition, so I want to remove it and give the space to the Windows parition and some to the linux. However, no parition software is letting me do that.
My main question is:
- Where in my set-up did I go wrong?
I would ideally like grub to be there, and would like to not have to format the drive and start over, but will if I have to.
Any suggestions, comments, would help.
Thank you
Sravan
Made a GPT:
Size Format Name
4MB - bios_grub
100MB FAT32 EFI
25GB EXT4 Ubuntu
85GB NTFS Data
130GB NTFS Windows
I installed Windows 7 Pro 64bit, all worked fine, had a bit of driver issue, but got it sorted. I then attempted to install Ubuntu 12.0 64bit, but the live CD wouldn't work. Gave me "Error: prefix not set" followed by a selection menu (Try Ubuntu, Install Ubuntu, Check Disk), and clicking any of them resulted in some error like "Could not find / root filesystem".
So I went and installed Ubuntu 32-bit. All works fine, I just have to go into BIOS to switch into Ubuntu. GPT now looks like:
Size Format Used Name
4MB - 4MB bios_grub
100MB FAT32 22MB EFI
25GB EXT3 0 Ubuntu
85GB NTFS 0 Data
128MB Other 128MB Reserved PArtition
128GB NTFS 59GB Data Partition (windows)
I now don't need the Data partition, so I want to remove it and give the space to the Windows parition and some to the linux. However, no parition software is letting me do that.
My main question is:
- Where in my set-up did I go wrong?
I would ideally like grub to be there, and would like to not have to format the drive and start over, but will if I have to.
Any suggestions, comments, would help.
Thank you
Sravan