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[ubuntu] Win7/Ubuntu Dual Boot Question

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a single disc which already had Windows 7 x64 on it. Windows was on two primary partitions, a very large partition C: and a small 100 mb partition. I've been using this computer for the past year with no problems. During the installation of Ubuntu, I made four partitions: 1) /boot, 2)/(root), 3)/home and 4) SWAP. After doing some reading, I decided to install grub in the /boot partition, rather than in the MBR to avoid problems. As a result, I boot to the Windows bootloader and if I select Ubuntu 12.04 rather then Window, I see the Grub boot screen. How (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 01/09/2013

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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've installed Arch Linux several times on a virtual machine (using syslinux as bootloader) without any problems, and now I've decided to have my laptop dual boot with Windows 7 and Arch.My laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed and so after I changed the boot location, Windows has 3 primary partitions on the HD. I plan on having a boot, swap, root, and home partitions (logical).

I just installed ubuntu 12.04 using a different partition for the /boot (I don't know why exactly I did this, I remembered reading somewhere on the web about this). The thing is that after this operation, the grub is not showing at boot, so the computer is loaded directly into windows.

Hi everyone! First of all, sorry for my English. I got this problem and I hope you can help me :)

Whenever I select Windows 7 under GRUB, it just hangs at a flashing underscore windows 7 is installed under my first primary partition, what should the GRUB section look like for it? I can't check what mine looked like because this happened:

Original title: How can i solve (un)booting windows 7 on the same partition with grub?

I've been researching for 2/3 days about this problem and I have came up empty.

Basically, partition 1 is Windows 7 and partition 2 is Ubuntu 12.04. I told Ubuntu to install into partition 2 and to install grub on partition 1 and that works fine. But the problem now is that I can't boot to Windows 7.

I want to know is there any possible (and simple) way to delete my Windows partitions and extend my Ubuntu partitions.

I have 1 HDD 700 GB:

sda1 primary 100MB NTFS (Windows boot partition) sda2 primary 100GB NTFS (Windows 7 OS) sda3 primary 500GB NTFS (Windows data files) sda4 extended partition 98GB: sda6 ext4 94GB (Ubuntu 12.04) sda5 swap 4GB

My actual boot partition is sda1

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