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chrisupi007
June 6th, 2013, 07:38 AM
Mission accomplished on HP Pavilion dv7 1025nr. I managed to dual-boot Windows Vista 64bit and Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64bit.

Issues:

- [SOLVED] black screen with cursor when booting Ubuntu > resolved using in grub: acpi=off, or acpi_osi=Linux
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1591381

- [SOLVED] wireless connection very slow > disabled 11n mode:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/66810/very-slow-connection-on-an-intelr-wifi-link-5100-agn


This guide helped through the installation:
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_f irst.htm