TeoTN
April 28th, 2013, 06:50 PM
I have my Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 with Windows 7 pre-installed but I've decided to install also Ubuntu 13.04 here, and there my troubles start...
Previously I had my disk divided into partitions like this:
1) *: SYSTEM_DRV (200MB) NTFS Primary
2) C: Windows7_OS (~900GB) NTFS Primary
3) D: LENOVO (25.47GB) NTFS Primary
4) *:LENOVO_PART (19.53GB) NTFS Primary
So I have shrunk 2nd partition and made up two more partitions - Ext4 (18GB) and Linux Swap (2GB), converted 3 and 4 to Logical, and set Ext4 to primary. After this I installed Linux Ubuntu 13.04 and after restart what I see is "Missing operating system".
Therefore I run LiveCD and set via sudo parted my windows partition to have boot flag. Now Windows is working.
But my question is: why grub is not loading? and how to make it dual boot without getting rid of LENOVO partitions which are necessary while using OneKey Recovery?
PS I'm a Linux newbie.
PS2 I don't want to lose my data. I have nowhere to have them backed up.
PS3 Sorry for awful English, I'm still learning.
Previously I had my disk divided into partitions like this:
1) *: SYSTEM_DRV (200MB) NTFS Primary
2) C: Windows7_OS (~900GB) NTFS Primary
3) D: LENOVO (25.47GB) NTFS Primary
4) *:LENOVO_PART (19.53GB) NTFS Primary
So I have shrunk 2nd partition and made up two more partitions - Ext4 (18GB) and Linux Swap (2GB), converted 3 and 4 to Logical, and set Ext4 to primary. After this I installed Linux Ubuntu 13.04 and after restart what I see is "Missing operating system".
Therefore I run LiveCD and set via sudo parted my windows partition to have boot flag. Now Windows is working.
But my question is: why grub is not loading? and how to make it dual boot without getting rid of LENOVO partitions which are necessary while using OneKey Recovery?
PS I'm a Linux newbie.
PS2 I don't want to lose my data. I have nowhere to have them backed up.
PS3 Sorry for awful English, I'm still learning.