don-j-cooper
February 3rd, 2017, 09:29 PM
Building a new PC to replace my decade+ old PC running 12.04. Thought this was going to be easy as, with the mobo etc. installed but storage still on the way, I stuck an old SATA drive into the machine and booted from 16.04 on a USB drive. Told the installer to use the whole drive and it all installed perfectly. Once storage and graphics card had arrived and been fitted I did another install but this time partitioning the target disk (/dev/sda). This fell over pretty quickly with a warning message about legacy BIOS OS's that wouldn't be usable if I continued with a UEFI installation. There was no other OS installed at this stage but this message window wouldn't close even when clicking on Continue so abandoned that attempt - I'd seen the same message the first time round but was able to click through it then.
Thought this might be down to missing something in the setup on the UEFI side of things - not had to worry about that before - and as I was going to have a Win7 dual boot eventually anyway tried installing that on /dev/sdb. After the usual Windows type problems I had that up and running so tried again with Ubuntu. Now when I tried installing Ubuntu I could see /dev/sda already had 100MB NTFS partition so I just set up the usual partitions on the remainder of the disk with the boot loader to go on /dev/sda. I was hoping that, as with the BIOS type installs I'm more familiar with, Ubuntu would just modify the boot loader to give me dual booting. This looked promising as it seemed to go through the whole install then fell over in a heap at the end with a message that it could not install grub. Any thoughts as to what the problem might be most welcome.
Thought this might be down to missing something in the setup on the UEFI side of things - not had to worry about that before - and as I was going to have a Win7 dual boot eventually anyway tried installing that on /dev/sdb. After the usual Windows type problems I had that up and running so tried again with Ubuntu. Now when I tried installing Ubuntu I could see /dev/sda already had 100MB NTFS partition so I just set up the usual partitions on the remainder of the disk with the boot loader to go on /dev/sda. I was hoping that, as with the BIOS type installs I'm more familiar with, Ubuntu would just modify the boot loader to give me dual booting. This looked promising as it seemed to go through the whole install then fell over in a heap at the end with a message that it could not install grub. Any thoughts as to what the problem might be most welcome.