[wellylug] Grub issues

Ray Smith nazgul748 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 17:24:02 NZST 2011


Thanks for the quick response.

I was never given an option regarding where to install grub. I selected the
"Install along side Windows" option and the whole process was automated from
there.

I was able to use EasyBCD to boot into Ubuntu. Upon boot the EasyBCD loader
gives the option to load Windows or Ubuntu. If I choose Ubuntu, it loads
Grub and I get to select Ubuntu again. It's not ideal, but it does work.

I'll read through the links you sent me and figure out how to write grub in
the MBR.

Thanks again,
R



On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:44 PM, David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 15:36, Ray Smith wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04. Windows
> is
> > installed first and I do not have the option to uninstall it.
> > The Ubuntu installation appears to complete without issue but upon
> reboot,
> > grub doesn't load. Windows boots as it always has.
>
> There are two types of places you can install GRUB to - the MBR (only
> one per disk, right at the start), or to a particular partition. Do
> you recall which you chose?
>
> It sounds like you need to (re)install GRUB to the master boot record
> (MBR) to overwrite the one that Windows put in place. Then GRUB will
> hand control over to either Windows or Linux depending on your choice
> at boot-time.
>
> Please take a look through this and let us know if you need any more help:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling_GRUB2
>
> -- David.
>
>
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