keith54
April 20th, 2016, 06:07 PM
I last used Ubuntu Hardy Heron god knows how long ago.
thought that I would give the new 16.04 a try.
Loaded a 64 .iso onto a pendrive and started in trial mode.
After a few tries I decided to install after shrinking my win7 install (using Easeus) leaving an unallocated partion on the end of the SSD of around 55 gbytes.
I aborted my first few tries at installing when i came up against some very ominous warnings about dual boot and UFEI.
On the last try I clicked go back again at this page and let it just sit there for a minute or so whilst i thought about what to do next.
It backed out and an install page appeared and I eventually chose the "something else" option and told it to install to the unallocated space on the end of the drive.
After choosing root, home and swap it installed ok and after a restart I was presented with a grub 2.02 beta 36 ubuntu 3 page with no win7 option.
Clicking the ubuntu option starts up ubuntu ok and I have updated a few programmes so Ubuntu install looks ok.
But no win7.
I loaded up the pendrive install again and was able to check that all the windows partitions and files were still there.
but no win7 boot option.
My computer is an Asus Z97-pro which boasts a UEFI bios.
I have tried the advice given in a similar post below but the advice fails at the first hurdle.
After typing in l /sys/firmware -l (from memory) it comes back no sys/firmware file found.
Any help would be much appreciated
Keith
thought that I would give the new 16.04 a try.
Loaded a 64 .iso onto a pendrive and started in trial mode.
After a few tries I decided to install after shrinking my win7 install (using Easeus) leaving an unallocated partion on the end of the SSD of around 55 gbytes.
I aborted my first few tries at installing when i came up against some very ominous warnings about dual boot and UFEI.
On the last try I clicked go back again at this page and let it just sit there for a minute or so whilst i thought about what to do next.
It backed out and an install page appeared and I eventually chose the "something else" option and told it to install to the unallocated space on the end of the drive.
After choosing root, home and swap it installed ok and after a restart I was presented with a grub 2.02 beta 36 ubuntu 3 page with no win7 option.
Clicking the ubuntu option starts up ubuntu ok and I have updated a few programmes so Ubuntu install looks ok.
But no win7.
I loaded up the pendrive install again and was able to check that all the windows partitions and files were still there.
but no win7 boot option.
My computer is an Asus Z97-pro which boasts a UEFI bios.
I have tried the advice given in a similar post below but the advice fails at the first hurdle.
After typing in l /sys/firmware -l (from memory) it comes back no sys/firmware file found.
Any help would be much appreciated
Keith