jay108
December 7th, 2015, 03:31 PM
Hi,
I am new here, and hope to get some help as I wasted already 3,5 days trying to install ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Dell Optiplex 745 (Core2 Duo CPU).
Initially I tried to install ubuntu alongside with Win XP, but did not find a way to get both into a boot manager (1. installed XP, 2. installed ubuntu; but no way to start ubuntu... first tried to add ubuntu to the Win boot manager, but ubuntu did not start; then tried to put Grub into the MBR, which worked, but left me with Grub starting only, but still no ubuntu (or Win XP anymore)).
1.5 years ago we did the same with a notebook, where we installed ubuntu 12.04 alongside with Win 7 without any problems, and had immediately a boot menue with the option to choose between ubuntu and Win 7. So thought it would be an easy task...
However, now I realized that I cannot waste more of my precious working time (don't want to get into trouble with my new boss...) and decided to install ubuntu on another hard drive (and swap hard disks everytime I need to boot the other OS... which would suck A LOT... but did not see another choice... just space for one HDD in the PC).
So, I deleted all partitions (again.....) and I installed ubuntu from an USB stick, installation went well (again...), but after restarting there is just a black screen with a flashing dash in the top left corner (did that 3 times now, everytime the same result).
Any idea what went wrong?
Old computer, no EFI; not trying to boot from a wrong device or so; set boot flag with gparted (which I read somewhere else)...
I am quite sure I am not the first person with this problem, but still I did not find anything useful in the forums, thats why I post here.
Would be great if anybody has an idea about this...
Thank!
Jay
I am new here, and hope to get some help as I wasted already 3,5 days trying to install ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Dell Optiplex 745 (Core2 Duo CPU).
Initially I tried to install ubuntu alongside with Win XP, but did not find a way to get both into a boot manager (1. installed XP, 2. installed ubuntu; but no way to start ubuntu... first tried to add ubuntu to the Win boot manager, but ubuntu did not start; then tried to put Grub into the MBR, which worked, but left me with Grub starting only, but still no ubuntu (or Win XP anymore)).
1.5 years ago we did the same with a notebook, where we installed ubuntu 12.04 alongside with Win 7 without any problems, and had immediately a boot menue with the option to choose between ubuntu and Win 7. So thought it would be an easy task...
However, now I realized that I cannot waste more of my precious working time (don't want to get into trouble with my new boss...) and decided to install ubuntu on another hard drive (and swap hard disks everytime I need to boot the other OS... which would suck A LOT... but did not see another choice... just space for one HDD in the PC).
So, I deleted all partitions (again.....) and I installed ubuntu from an USB stick, installation went well (again...), but after restarting there is just a black screen with a flashing dash in the top left corner (did that 3 times now, everytime the same result).
Any idea what went wrong?
Old computer, no EFI; not trying to boot from a wrong device or so; set boot flag with gparted (which I read somewhere else)...
I am quite sure I am not the first person with this problem, but still I did not find anything useful in the forums, thats why I post here.
Would be great if anybody has an idea about this...
Thank!
Jay