justen_m
April 29th, 2013, 06:40 PM
My Win7 Pro 64-bit system (8GB, 1TB, 3.2ghz Intel Xeon w3565) was working fine. I wanted to add Ubuntu 13.04. I booted from USB, selected try me, everything booted fine, so I installed Ubuntu alongside Win7.
Grub comes up with Ubuntu as the default. I scroll down and Windows boots fine (just to make sure I didn't hose that). I reboot and let it try Ubuntu. Nothing. The screen goes black and I have a blinking cursor in the top left. It hangs. I reboot and go to advanced options and choose recovery mode.
I get output but again, it hangs. The last few lines I see are (times are truncated by me)...
[0.51] ACPI: PowerButton [PWRF]
[0.51] ACPI: Requesting acpi_cpufreq
[1.49] Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3.199.999 MHz.
[1.49] Switching to clocksource tsc
Any ideas on how to fix?
[THIS PART SOLVED]Or even how to just uninstall Ubuntu altogether? I tried the os-uninstaller, but that doesn't seem to work (be available) with a 13.04 usb stick. I guess I can try putting an older version of ubuntu on the stick and see if I can install the os-uninstaller.[I downloaded linux-secure-12.10-64bit.iso, booted from the USB stick, ran os-uninstaller and got rid of Ubuntu 13.04, then rebooted in Win7 and got rid of the two linux partitions (os and swap), deleted the volume, and extended my original Win volume, so I am back to where I started. /THIS PART SOLVED]
I also tried the boot-repair tool, but all that did was add another Win7 entry into the grub menu (one for dev/sda1 and another for dev/sda2, and both work and boot to Win7... http://paste.ubuntu.com/5616403 (http://paste.ubuntu.com/5616403) ).
From what I can tell, I don't have UEFI, just normal BIOS.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Grub comes up with Ubuntu as the default. I scroll down and Windows boots fine (just to make sure I didn't hose that). I reboot and let it try Ubuntu. Nothing. The screen goes black and I have a blinking cursor in the top left. It hangs. I reboot and go to advanced options and choose recovery mode.
I get output but again, it hangs. The last few lines I see are (times are truncated by me)...
[0.51] ACPI: PowerButton [PWRF]
[0.51] ACPI: Requesting acpi_cpufreq
[1.49] Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3.199.999 MHz.
[1.49] Switching to clocksource tsc
Any ideas on how to fix?
[THIS PART SOLVED]Or even how to just uninstall Ubuntu altogether? I tried the os-uninstaller, but that doesn't seem to work (be available) with a 13.04 usb stick. I guess I can try putting an older version of ubuntu on the stick and see if I can install the os-uninstaller.[I downloaded linux-secure-12.10-64bit.iso, booted from the USB stick, ran os-uninstaller and got rid of Ubuntu 13.04, then rebooted in Win7 and got rid of the two linux partitions (os and swap), deleted the volume, and extended my original Win volume, so I am back to where I started. /THIS PART SOLVED]
I also tried the boot-repair tool, but all that did was add another Win7 entry into the grub menu (one for dev/sda1 and another for dev/sda2, and both work and boot to Win7... http://paste.ubuntu.com/5616403 (http://paste.ubuntu.com/5616403) ).
From what I can tell, I don't have UEFI, just normal BIOS.
Any ideas? Thanks.