1

[kubuntu] Newly installed Kubuntu boots to Windows instead

view story
linux-howto

http://ubuntuforums.org – I just finished installing Kubuntu 12.04.1 on my laptop, which already had Windows 7 installed. The Windows boot partition is sda1; the Kubuntu boot partition is (or is supposed to be) sda6. The installation had a couple of minor burps that I didn't worry about. But now, when I reboot, I get into Windows rather than Kubuntu. I was expecting to see the Grub2 screen, offering me a choice of systems to boot to. I think I can get into Kubuntu by booting into SuperGrub, but I shouldn't have to. What might have gone wrong? (Hardware)

linuxfan's picture
Submitted by linuxfan on 10/04/2012

Stories similar to [kubuntu] Newly installed Kubuntu boots to Windows instead

Hello there,

I installed Kubuntu 12.04 from ISO DVD and it was installed on a partition without ID letter "like C,D..." and was showing many options on reboot but Windows 7 was the last in the list.

I have a desktop system with Kubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7. Kubuntu used to be my main system, but in the last year I worked a lot with Windows (only used Linux on my laptop). Today I accidentally told Grub to start Kubuntu 10.10 (which is still the default OS). I soon restarted and switched back to Windows 7.

I've been dual-booting Kubuntu and Windows 7 for a couple of weeks and I've been able to boot into Kubuntu just fine until this afternoon. Now when I choose Kubuntu's entry, instead of the regular bootloader I get the grub prompt screen saying "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.", etc.

Hey all, go easy on me if I'm making a noob mistake.

I am dual booting Win7/Kubuntu 12.10 using Grub2. All on a single drive, all partitions seem to be correct, using the 64bit version. I can boot from the USB key just fine but not from the disk after selecting Kubuntu from Grub.

After installing off of a live cd (via USB) grub was not working so I ran boot-repair selecting recommended fixes.

So, I have three hard drives. The first used to have windows xp on it, the second has two partitions, one containing just data and another containing windows 7 and the third is just data. I installed kubuntu to the first hard drive (replacing everything on it) with LVM.

I am a complete newbie to partitioning and I would like some guidance here. Can anyone explain what exactly I should be doing here?

I am installing Kubuntu 12.04 on a currently Windows 7 laptop. My current Partitions say this:

/dev/sda /dev/sda1 ntfs 104 MB 35 MB /dev/sda2 ntfs 319965 MB 87164 MB

Basically, what I want is some guidance on what exactly to do here.

After checking out some distros, I decided that the Kubuntu variant was the one for me.

I had set my PC like this:

/boot - 250 MB ext3 / 80 GB ext4, Kubuntu

Now I needed to install Ubuntu so I made a new 8 GB partition as / and formatted the previous /boot partition and set that same partition as new /boot for this new installation.

The thing is that now my Kubuntu partition is like just a /home partition and a few other system folders but without a /boot and grub sees only the

I had my BIOS complaing that there were no OS. (worked since releaseday of 11.2).

partition setup:

sda1 : primary : swap sda2 : primary : ext3 : Kubuntu sda3 : primary : ext3 : opensuse (flagged as bootable) sda5 : logical sda6 : logical

opensuses GRUB is primary and Kubuntus is chainloaded.