hektor2
January 6th, 2015, 11:23 PM
Hi guys,
I'm new around here and a linux noob (not planning to stay a noob for a long time though).
But right now I need your help. I had the idea to get my hands on linux a bit but was not ready to give up windows entirely. So after doing some research online I decided to run a version of linux from a USB flash drive (Puppy) but I couldn't get it to work so I tried another version, lubuntu this time. While I managed to get lubuntu to the USB flash drive now I think my grub2 is screwed. I'm trying for a while to find a solution, have seen a similar thread here too but it is not exactly the same so the solution of that thread doesn't work for me.
My situation now is as follows: I have a Laptop (pretty old, Compaq from 2010) with four partitions hard drive. On the first one is (was?!) Windows 7 installed the other partitions contained file (mostly e-books and software). I downloaded a .iso file of lubuntu 11.04, put it to a USB flash drive with unetbootin and rebooted. It didn't work the first time so I tried Universal USB Installer I guess it workd somehow but after rebooting there was no option to boot either Windows 8 or Lubuntu, the Laptop just booted into Lubuntu. There were some options on the screen like: try lubuntu, install lubuntu, boot from first hard drive, advanced... I chose the first option, try lubuntu it booted and works nicely (I'm writing this from lubuntu) but after some time I rebooted to see if I can boot into windows, with no luck. I chose the option boot from first hard drive but still it didn't work. I tried removing the USB flash drive from the computer that didn't work either, just a blinking, white underscore in the top left corner of the screen. I suppose somehow the grub(2) got messed up but even after looking all over the internet I couldn't figure a way to resolve this.
Any answer appreciated. Thnx in advance. :KS
I'm new around here and a linux noob (not planning to stay a noob for a long time though).
But right now I need your help. I had the idea to get my hands on linux a bit but was not ready to give up windows entirely. So after doing some research online I decided to run a version of linux from a USB flash drive (Puppy) but I couldn't get it to work so I tried another version, lubuntu this time. While I managed to get lubuntu to the USB flash drive now I think my grub2 is screwed. I'm trying for a while to find a solution, have seen a similar thread here too but it is not exactly the same so the solution of that thread doesn't work for me.
My situation now is as follows: I have a Laptop (pretty old, Compaq from 2010) with four partitions hard drive. On the first one is (was?!) Windows 7 installed the other partitions contained file (mostly e-books and software). I downloaded a .iso file of lubuntu 11.04, put it to a USB flash drive with unetbootin and rebooted. It didn't work the first time so I tried Universal USB Installer I guess it workd somehow but after rebooting there was no option to boot either Windows 8 or Lubuntu, the Laptop just booted into Lubuntu. There were some options on the screen like: try lubuntu, install lubuntu, boot from first hard drive, advanced... I chose the first option, try lubuntu it booted and works nicely (I'm writing this from lubuntu) but after some time I rebooted to see if I can boot into windows, with no luck. I chose the option boot from first hard drive but still it didn't work. I tried removing the USB flash drive from the computer that didn't work either, just a blinking, white underscore in the top left corner of the screen. I suppose somehow the grub(2) got messed up but even after looking all over the internet I couldn't figure a way to resolve this.
Any answer appreciated. Thnx in advance. :KS