I have two partitions on my hard-didk , I have installed ubuntu on my 1st partition and windows 8 later on another partition.Now i can only boot into windows 8 because it doesn't recognize Ubuntu.
How would i dual boot my PC without using grub .
I am trying to dual boot on an external USB 500GB drive using my laptop.I have Windows 7 installed and booting on 1st partition 230GB now as active primary, 2nd partition is 100GB as primary, and 3rd partition is 135GB as primary. I was intending on installing Ubuntu onto the 2nd partition.
I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 on my MacBook and despite selecting the same partition as the Ubuntu root partition to install the bootloader, it installs Grub to the EFI partition under /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi. The EFI partition is being mounted by Ubuntu under /boot/efi.
I reverted from the dual poot through internal partitions.
The dualboot was set up via this topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1275859
After that I ran the revert dual boot zip and then used the customer partition setup from this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1094371
Suddenly, I could only boot to cwm.
I have two linux distros that I want to dual-boot off a single 140GB serial ATA drive
what I want to do is set up both distros so that I can boot either of them whenever I start up, I've done this with windows which was fairly simple since all I needed was to install the distro on a seperate partition and it pretty much did this all automagically
but at this time I have a Linux OS and I want to b
I am using a dual boot Ubuntu/win7 machine. My win 7recovery partition is around 20GB, since I have created recovery disks I am assuming I no longer need it my windows partition is only small I was thinking to delete the recovery and add an extra 20GB to my Win. Is my thinking sensible there?. The recovery partition shows as the 1st partition on my hard disc.
Following a fresh install of 12.04 on a dual HDD dual boot system first boot brought up Grub Rescue.
I installed Boot Repair in a live CD and ran the recommended repair. Boot Repair indicated a successful repair.
Upon reboot there is no entry for Win XP.
Gparted shows sda as full as it was before installing 12.04.
Hi, can someone help me install a dual boot for windows 7 and ubuntu. I've installed Win7 and I've installed ubuntu and made a /boot, /home, /root, and swap partitions. The /boot is a primary partition and the rest is logical. I set the device boot loader to /boot and when I restart I get a error grub rescue message.
am i supposed to set the device boot loader to /dev/sda or sda3?
I have Windows 8 and need to dual boot Ubuntu.
From Windows Manager I make new partition, when I boot Ubuntu and select this partition, it didn't work and appeared this message: this partition is not rooted !!
I select one of this released: link.
How to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 8 in different partition not same primary C.