Seadog01
August 25th, 2012, 07:22 PM
Hello everyone,
I'm a longtime linux user and evangelist, but installation (grub2 in particular) is not, shall we say, my forte. So if you have any advice about the following, give it to me slow...
I'm trying to install ubuntu on my new computer. Important features of it include 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD, and an Asus Z77 Sabertooth motherboard.
Windows 7 was installed and is working perfectly, so all my hardware and connections and so forth seem to be working properly. I next tried to dual-boot with linux. I put 12.04 on a flash drive, did the whole repartitioning and install thing, rebooted, and tried to set up the windows bootloader with EasyBCD. I now have an option to boot linux in the windows bootloader, but it just dumps me to the grub commandline.
The usual fix for that seems to be to fire up the live version again, and reinstall grub manually. Trouble is, both the live versions I've tried (Lubuntu and Mint -- I'm embarrassed to say I've lost the original drive) won't boot, and also dumps me to the grub commandline.
So, any idea why a live flash drive won't boot properly? It sometimes complains about a missing init file, but you'd think that problem wouldn't be the same across distributions... I should also add that throughout this adventure, windows continues to work fine. Thanks!
I'm a longtime linux user and evangelist, but installation (grub2 in particular) is not, shall we say, my forte. So if you have any advice about the following, give it to me slow...
I'm trying to install ubuntu on my new computer. Important features of it include 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD, and an Asus Z77 Sabertooth motherboard.
Windows 7 was installed and is working perfectly, so all my hardware and connections and so forth seem to be working properly. I next tried to dual-boot with linux. I put 12.04 on a flash drive, did the whole repartitioning and install thing, rebooted, and tried to set up the windows bootloader with EasyBCD. I now have an option to boot linux in the windows bootloader, but it just dumps me to the grub commandline.
The usual fix for that seems to be to fire up the live version again, and reinstall grub manually. Trouble is, both the live versions I've tried (Lubuntu and Mint -- I'm embarrassed to say I've lost the original drive) won't boot, and also dumps me to the grub commandline.
So, any idea why a live flash drive won't boot properly? It sometimes complains about a missing init file, but you'd think that problem wouldn't be the same across distributions... I should also add that throughout this adventure, windows continues to work fine. Thanks!