BGLamb
June 29th, 2014, 09:03 AM
Hello all.
I got a new HD recently and have been having issues getting Ubuntu and Windows working nicely together.
I've done a lot of back and forth, but the current situation is as follows: I have installed Win 8 onto my new HD, and then booted from a Ubuntu CD. I installed Ubuntu, but upon rebooting it just loads straight into Windows. Now, my limited knowledge of these things makes me think that this is because, in order to dual boot, my bootloader must be on the very first partition of my HD (correct me if I am wrong), and I have already installed Windows there. When I boot back off the Linux CD, I can see my Linux partitions, but Windows is telling me that it can't (in fact it believes the whole drive is it's own partition, which seems kinda scary from a data-loss perspective).
Is there a way I can fix this without having to reinstall both Windows and Linux? That would be a big pain as I did a lot of installing programs on Windows, and also when I installed them in the reverse order it wasn't without it's problems either! (I think installing Win after Linux may have overwritten my boot partition or something anyway.)
Any and all help/advice appreciated. I'd love to understand more about what is going on and why. Here is an attached copy of "fdisk" for the disk in question.
Disk /dev/sdb: 256.1 GB, 256060514304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31130 cylinders, total 500118192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000cf04c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 718847 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 718848 437552466 218416809+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 437553150 500117503 31282177 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb5 437553152 491737087 27091968 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 491739136 500117503 4189184 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I got a new HD recently and have been having issues getting Ubuntu and Windows working nicely together.
I've done a lot of back and forth, but the current situation is as follows: I have installed Win 8 onto my new HD, and then booted from a Ubuntu CD. I installed Ubuntu, but upon rebooting it just loads straight into Windows. Now, my limited knowledge of these things makes me think that this is because, in order to dual boot, my bootloader must be on the very first partition of my HD (correct me if I am wrong), and I have already installed Windows there. When I boot back off the Linux CD, I can see my Linux partitions, but Windows is telling me that it can't (in fact it believes the whole drive is it's own partition, which seems kinda scary from a data-loss perspective).
Is there a way I can fix this without having to reinstall both Windows and Linux? That would be a big pain as I did a lot of installing programs on Windows, and also when I installed them in the reverse order it wasn't without it's problems either! (I think installing Win after Linux may have overwritten my boot partition or something anyway.)
Any and all help/advice appreciated. I'd love to understand more about what is going on and why. Here is an attached copy of "fdisk" for the disk in question.
Disk /dev/sdb: 256.1 GB, 256060514304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31130 cylinders, total 500118192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000cf04c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 718847 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 718848 437552466 218416809+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 437553150 500117503 31282177 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb5 437553152 491737087 27091968 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 491739136 500117503 4189184 82 Linux swap / Solaris