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[ubuntu] Installed ubuntu 11.04 along side with windows 7

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi All, I installed ubuntu alongside with windows 7 but I am not getting the option for ubuntu in the windows boot loader. I have a 320 gb hard disk: C: drive - 40 gb windows has been installed on this D and E drives - 250 gb used for data F: drive - 15 gb firstly formatted as NTFS but used gparted to change the filesyste. This is the partition I used to install ubuntu. This was divided into three partitions: /dev/sda5 mounted to / /dev/sda6 used as swap area /dev/sda7 mounted to /home While installing it asked for device to install bootloader and I selected the /dev/sda5 partition. I (Hardware)

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I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 using a Live CD to a new Gateway computer with Windows 7. I used "Install Alongside Windows" option. But on restart there was no boot menu. It only starts into Windows.

I have a 750GB hard disk with Windows 7 installed. So I shrunk the C: drive to about 80 GB, created two more partitions, one for data (about 615GB), one for ubuntu (30GB) (extended partition). I ran gparted, created a 8.5 GB swap partition inside ubuntu partition, and left whatever to ubuntu root partition. So I went to install ubuntu. After a few tries, everything worked.

Ubuntu not mounted? 30 weeks 5 days ago

In Live CD i went in the terminal and when i do 'sudo update-grub' it responds

/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).

Here's the breakdown of my drive:

sda1 - vfat - Windows 7: FAT32

sda2 -

sda3 - nfs - Windows Vista/7: NTFS - Windows 7

sda3/Wubi: -

sda4 - Grub2

sda5 - Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

sda6 -

sda7 -

sda8 - BIOS Boot Partition

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I have the following partition structure

`/dev/loop0 squashfs

/dev/sda1 system reserved ( ntfs )

/dev/sda2 ntfs ( windows partition )

/dev/sda3 ntfs

/dev/sda5 ntfs

/dev/sda6 ext4`

I have Ubuntu installed inside windows. I formatted /dev/sda6 from inside Ubuntu ( using Gparted ). What I totally forgot was /dev/sda6 had Fedora which was the root directory of GRUB.

I am in a very strange situation and need some help: I installed Ubuntu 11.10 through Wubi a while back so that I can use it alongside Windows 7. I was running out of space on my disk when trying to install applications.

Basically what I want to do is install a fresh copy of Ubuntu from Ubuntu. It is an older machine so usb boot doesn't work and I don't see why I need to waste a CD to do it.

I have installed and working Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I discovered that I do not need all this space that I have assigned to my D:/ drive in Windows and now would like to include it as a partition in Ubuntu.

A friend told me that if I have first installed Windows and then Ubuntu, then the order of the disks does not favor such a move and that I must just format it and auto-mount it in Ubuntu.

I prefer Ubuntu to work on, but for some applications for school, I need windows. I've done some research and have a few problems:

1) I only have one hard drive which is formatted as ext4, not ntfs.

I had installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a separate partition, in ext4 format in my comp, which initially had only Windows 7 .I had done the installation from a Live USB, which gave me the option Install on boot, in a GRUB menu. I had chosen the option of "Installing Ubuntu alongside Windows". I had chosed the particular partition duing the install, and in mount part, I had given "/".