Kevin_Nauta
September 8th, 2014, 11:45 PM
Hello,
I recently built a new pc, and put windows 7 Professional N on it (64b).
Now I wanted to make a dualboot install with Ubuntu 14.04, and downloaded the appropriate iso as such, made a liveboot usb stick something with it, and installed.
I had some friends help me who had sufficient experience in the field, and I was confident that it would work.
I have a 256 GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD. (other specs below)
Windows had approx. 70GB taken on the SSD, and i had some files stored on the HDD for ~8GB.
I made an 8GB swap partition on the HDD, and a 35GB parition for Ext4 to install ubuntu on.
Then I installed the bootloader on the HDD, so that I can choose to boot to either when booting from HDD, or boot directly to windows if booting from SSD (and because if I installed it on the SSD, I would lose my entire Windows OS, as I was told).
Now, time and keyboard probably aren't that important, and when I had installed the entire OS and got a message that I had to reboot, I did so.
First time, I left the USB stick in, and I got to see some sort of GRUB menu (worked with it before, and looked reasonably like it, though nowhere was Windows to be seen) which had the following options:
> Ubuntu
> Advanced options for Ubuntu
> System setup
The second would show four versions of ubuntu with versionnumbers next to it, of which two were recommended or something.
The third would error: couldn't find command 'fwsetup'
The first would stop showing up on the screen (check cable connection, an error from the display itself), and I would hear the drumsound once, then a short break (half a second), then the drumsound infinitely repeating.
Restarted, booted to windows, it wanted to do a consistency check for both disks, but everything seemed fine.
And everything *was* fine, except for the system time which was set back 2 hours, but oh well :P
So I formatted the usb stick again, put ubuntu on it again (this time with PenDriveLinux on Windows OS, previous one was on Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with a built-in program) and tried again.
Same settings, same everything.
One thing to note: when installing I was asked if I wanted to install Ubuntu besides Ubuntu (the previous install), install it instead of Ubuntu, or choose other settings (which I did, to make sure the partitions were allright).
Same result. Nothing on the displays, drumsound once, pause, drumsound infinitely repeating.
Windows didn't perform any consistency checks or whatever, and booted normally, though again the time was set back 2 hours.
Tried rebooting, but never again was I shown the 3 options menu as put above, not even after the first install, after trying to boot ubuntu again.
Does anyone have any ideas to what caused it, why it happened to me twice, and how to fix this (prefferably in that order, so I can learn from it)?
Thanks in advance!
PC Specs:
- 256 GB Crucial SSD
- 1 TB WD HDD
- Samsung CD station thingy
- 8 GB ram (2x4GB)
- Intel i5 4690 & Mugen 4
- Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X w/ 4GB memory
- Dual BENQ 22" monitors setup
All put together nicely in a CM 690 III window Case
Usb: Kingston DataTraveler G4 w/ 8GB
Newly bought to install Windows on the pc, only used a couple of times afterwards to copy files from laptop to desktop.
I recently built a new pc, and put windows 7 Professional N on it (64b).
Now I wanted to make a dualboot install with Ubuntu 14.04, and downloaded the appropriate iso as such, made a liveboot usb stick something with it, and installed.
I had some friends help me who had sufficient experience in the field, and I was confident that it would work.
I have a 256 GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD. (other specs below)
Windows had approx. 70GB taken on the SSD, and i had some files stored on the HDD for ~8GB.
I made an 8GB swap partition on the HDD, and a 35GB parition for Ext4 to install ubuntu on.
Then I installed the bootloader on the HDD, so that I can choose to boot to either when booting from HDD, or boot directly to windows if booting from SSD (and because if I installed it on the SSD, I would lose my entire Windows OS, as I was told).
Now, time and keyboard probably aren't that important, and when I had installed the entire OS and got a message that I had to reboot, I did so.
First time, I left the USB stick in, and I got to see some sort of GRUB menu (worked with it before, and looked reasonably like it, though nowhere was Windows to be seen) which had the following options:
> Ubuntu
> Advanced options for Ubuntu
> System setup
The second would show four versions of ubuntu with versionnumbers next to it, of which two were recommended or something.
The third would error: couldn't find command 'fwsetup'
The first would stop showing up on the screen (check cable connection, an error from the display itself), and I would hear the drumsound once, then a short break (half a second), then the drumsound infinitely repeating.
Restarted, booted to windows, it wanted to do a consistency check for both disks, but everything seemed fine.
And everything *was* fine, except for the system time which was set back 2 hours, but oh well :P
So I formatted the usb stick again, put ubuntu on it again (this time with PenDriveLinux on Windows OS, previous one was on Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with a built-in program) and tried again.
Same settings, same everything.
One thing to note: when installing I was asked if I wanted to install Ubuntu besides Ubuntu (the previous install), install it instead of Ubuntu, or choose other settings (which I did, to make sure the partitions were allright).
Same result. Nothing on the displays, drumsound once, pause, drumsound infinitely repeating.
Windows didn't perform any consistency checks or whatever, and booted normally, though again the time was set back 2 hours.
Tried rebooting, but never again was I shown the 3 options menu as put above, not even after the first install, after trying to boot ubuntu again.
Does anyone have any ideas to what caused it, why it happened to me twice, and how to fix this (prefferably in that order, so I can learn from it)?
Thanks in advance!
PC Specs:
- 256 GB Crucial SSD
- 1 TB WD HDD
- Samsung CD station thingy
- 8 GB ram (2x4GB)
- Intel i5 4690 & Mugen 4
- Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X w/ 4GB memory
- Dual BENQ 22" monitors setup
All put together nicely in a CM 690 III window Case
Usb: Kingston DataTraveler G4 w/ 8GB
Newly bought to install Windows on the pc, only used a couple of times afterwards to copy files from laptop to desktop.