sippyCUP
August 16th, 2012, 07:42 AM
Hi all,
Long time Ubuntu/Mint user, I'm trying to install 12.04 unity on my new 64 bit box. I've already got win7 installed, MBR partitions.
After spending two days reviewing internet forum posts and guides pertaining to dual booting, I am totally at wits end. This install is kicking my butt.
I have a 180GB SSD, sda, and a 2TB HDD, sdb. SDA has the 100mb windows partition, an NTFS win7 install parition, then I have a 60db logical partition for linux and 4 gb swap. My 2tb disk is hosting /home.
At first I attempted to install GRUB to an /boot partition (/boot was the grub install location) and use easyBCD in windows to load Ubuntu via the win7 bootloader, but I was met with a grub4dos prompt upon attempting to load Ubuntu. I could not resolve this issue despite playing with it for several hours.
Then I figured I would just let GRUB take over the MBR, so I reinstalled Ubuntu, specifiying /dev/sda as the GRUB install location. Well, that didn't work. Kinda ridiculous considering how often people complain about OS's inadvertently jacking their MBR, but win7 still loads its bootloader.
I then decided to forcefully insert GRUB into the MBR to the best of my ability. I booted in my Ubuntu install with rescatux, and ran grub-install followed by update-grub.
Well... my MBR must be using birth control, because by all indications it is inpenetrable.
I'm kind of wondering if this is some sort of weird UEFI thing, but windows volume manager claims my disk is MBR, not UEFI.
I really just want to get GRUB on my boot disk's MBR. Any ideas?
Thanks, Eric
Here's my parted print output:
Model: ATA INTEL SSDSC2CT18 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 180GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 115GB 115GB primary ntfs
3 115GB 180GB 64.8GB extended
5 115GB 176GB 60.8GB logical ext4
6 176GB 180GB 3999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ext4
Long time Ubuntu/Mint user, I'm trying to install 12.04 unity on my new 64 bit box. I've already got win7 installed, MBR partitions.
After spending two days reviewing internet forum posts and guides pertaining to dual booting, I am totally at wits end. This install is kicking my butt.
I have a 180GB SSD, sda, and a 2TB HDD, sdb. SDA has the 100mb windows partition, an NTFS win7 install parition, then I have a 60db logical partition for linux and 4 gb swap. My 2tb disk is hosting /home.
At first I attempted to install GRUB to an /boot partition (/boot was the grub install location) and use easyBCD in windows to load Ubuntu via the win7 bootloader, but I was met with a grub4dos prompt upon attempting to load Ubuntu. I could not resolve this issue despite playing with it for several hours.
Then I figured I would just let GRUB take over the MBR, so I reinstalled Ubuntu, specifiying /dev/sda as the GRUB install location. Well, that didn't work. Kinda ridiculous considering how often people complain about OS's inadvertently jacking their MBR, but win7 still loads its bootloader.
I then decided to forcefully insert GRUB into the MBR to the best of my ability. I booted in my Ubuntu install with rescatux, and ran grub-install followed by update-grub.
Well... my MBR must be using birth control, because by all indications it is inpenetrable.
I'm kind of wondering if this is some sort of weird UEFI thing, but windows volume manager claims my disk is MBR, not UEFI.
I really just want to get GRUB on my boot disk's MBR. Any ideas?
Thanks, Eric
Here's my parted print output:
Model: ATA INTEL SSDSC2CT18 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 180GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 115GB 115GB primary ntfs
3 115GB 180GB 64.8GB extended
5 115GB 176GB 60.8GB logical ext4
6 176GB 180GB 3999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ext4