SkOrPn
June 20th, 2014, 11:19 PM
Woohoo finally got this dual boot thing working.
After successfully installing both Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 in a FakeRAID mdadm environment which was one of the most nerve racking, soul searching, day wasting tasks I have ever faced, lol, I have FINALLY got it working. I read everything I could find, every how-to, every guide, and used much of what I was reading and much of what is in the Ubuntu documents to figure out on my own what was going on with Boot-Repair. Apparently Boot-Repair is just not mature enough to fully support the combination of Windows and Ubuntu on the same hard drives, within the same RAID array. Or, its just not mature enough to be properly used with RAID in general. All week it has constantly spit out incorrect copy/paste codes for the terminal, and all week I have had to figure out what it was doing wrong, fixing it and/or getting it wrong myself. Trial and error and massive amounts of perseverance = SUCCESS!
Well, today I figured out what Boot-Repair, and many of these guides and documents were missing and I fixed it myself. However, I have one last problem I hope someone here can help me solve, and yet another Boot-Repair induced symptom that occurred only after using it to fix this last and finally successful attempt at a raided dual boot config. I now have an annoyingly long line of text that flashes across the screen so fast it can not be read. Before using Boot-Repair it just booted directly to the desktop without any ugly text, and I think it did it much faster too. Below is a YT video of the text and a screenshot of my grub file.
http://i.imgur.com/Be6oh4ul.png
I tried changing the grub code from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="whateverwasherebefore"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"
like you are supposed to do when you do not want to see text at boot, but that did nothing for me of course. Can someone tell me what this is and how to edit Grub to not show this text at boot time? Please
Here's the video of the text, maybe you recognize it? I do not think it is a normal boot sequence that is going on, I actually think it is repairing something each time I boot Ubuntu, but maybe that assumption is wrong. Windows boots perfectly though.
(Sorry about the loud vacuum cleaner in the background)
http://youtu.be/L-nOf4Ysggo
EDIT: I had one more thought, maybe now that I have Ubuntu actually running, maybe I should try Boot-Repair inside this working install? Instead of a Live Session?
Thank you again
Rod
After successfully installing both Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 in a FakeRAID mdadm environment which was one of the most nerve racking, soul searching, day wasting tasks I have ever faced, lol, I have FINALLY got it working. I read everything I could find, every how-to, every guide, and used much of what I was reading and much of what is in the Ubuntu documents to figure out on my own what was going on with Boot-Repair. Apparently Boot-Repair is just not mature enough to fully support the combination of Windows and Ubuntu on the same hard drives, within the same RAID array. Or, its just not mature enough to be properly used with RAID in general. All week it has constantly spit out incorrect copy/paste codes for the terminal, and all week I have had to figure out what it was doing wrong, fixing it and/or getting it wrong myself. Trial and error and massive amounts of perseverance = SUCCESS!
Well, today I figured out what Boot-Repair, and many of these guides and documents were missing and I fixed it myself. However, I have one last problem I hope someone here can help me solve, and yet another Boot-Repair induced symptom that occurred only after using it to fix this last and finally successful attempt at a raided dual boot config. I now have an annoyingly long line of text that flashes across the screen so fast it can not be read. Before using Boot-Repair it just booted directly to the desktop without any ugly text, and I think it did it much faster too. Below is a YT video of the text and a screenshot of my grub file.
http://i.imgur.com/Be6oh4ul.png
I tried changing the grub code from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="whateverwasherebefore"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"
like you are supposed to do when you do not want to see text at boot, but that did nothing for me of course. Can someone tell me what this is and how to edit Grub to not show this text at boot time? Please
Here's the video of the text, maybe you recognize it? I do not think it is a normal boot sequence that is going on, I actually think it is repairing something each time I boot Ubuntu, but maybe that assumption is wrong. Windows boots perfectly though.
(Sorry about the loud vacuum cleaner in the background)
http://youtu.be/L-nOf4Ysggo
EDIT: I had one more thought, maybe now that I have Ubuntu actually running, maybe I should try Boot-Repair inside this working install? Instead of a Live Session?
Thank you again
Rod