gianfranco2
September 19th, 2013, 01:43 PM
Hi everybody, I recently bought this (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03664130) HP laptop with Windows 8 preinstalled. Long story short, I grow increasingly frustrated with Windows 8 and install Windows 7 (x64) instead, erasing the entire drive (I wanted to get rid of GPT, essentially, having been told that booting Windows 7 with it would prove difficult and that simply formatting it would do the trick), and deciding to install Xubuntu 13.04 (I've been using Linux for over a year, and XFCE is my favourite DE so far); despite being very unexperienced, instead of choosing the option to install it alongside my other OS, I choose the custom installation, and partition my drive like this (http://sdrv.ms/18CsTmr). (/dev/sda4 is a logical partition containing the root, /dev/sda5 is the Home folder and /dev/sda6 is the swap partition).
However, Xubuntu does not boot (the system apparently does not see Grub).
I run Grub Repair from in Live Mode and decide to take no action; and here (http://paste.ubuntu.com/6124723/) is the report that it has generated;
So basically, here are the questions that I would like to ask, before I decide to do anything else:
What is it that I did wrong, essentially? Does it have anything to do with EFI and would the way I have partitioned my drive have worked with an older laptop without EFI\GPT?
What do I need to do to solve the problem (preferrably without having to reformat the drive)?
Should running Grub Repair solve it? I am somewhat reluctant to use the program, because I would like to know if there are other, more efficient solutions. (my concern here being - hypothetically - the presence of leftover and\or redundant files that would occupy space needlessly and could be easily removed should the procedure be done manually or in some other way)
However, Xubuntu does not boot (the system apparently does not see Grub).
I run Grub Repair from in Live Mode and decide to take no action; and here (http://paste.ubuntu.com/6124723/) is the report that it has generated;
So basically, here are the questions that I would like to ask, before I decide to do anything else:
What is it that I did wrong, essentially? Does it have anything to do with EFI and would the way I have partitioned my drive have worked with an older laptop without EFI\GPT?
What do I need to do to solve the problem (preferrably without having to reformat the drive)?
Should running Grub Repair solve it? I am somewhat reluctant to use the program, because I would like to know if there are other, more efficient solutions. (my concern here being - hypothetically - the presence of leftover and\or redundant files that would occupy space needlessly and could be easily removed should the procedure be done manually or in some other way)