[Ilugc] Unable to find OS in new laptop
- From: logic.linux@xxxxxxxxx (Srikanth Lakshmanan)
- Date: Sat Sep 18 01:07:26 2010
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 23:48, Navaneethan <navaneethanit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
He says after installed only once it boots and entering into OS,after
restarting it the problem starts..
can you give some suggestion about the problem?your predictions and
advises!! Have you faced any problem like this?
The laptop is the new one recently got.
Dell has a "Dell MBR" where it links Windows 7, Recovery drive (where your
original copy sits). When you install Ubuntu typically the GRUB2 overwrites
this MBR partition with GRUB2 pointing to Ubuntu and Windows7. There wont be
any problem as long as you keep booting into Ubuntu. But when you boot into
Windows7, it will allow you for once. When you reboot after the Windows7
boot, your MBR would have been overwritten by windows and now your ubuntu
becomes inaccessible. To solve this, use EasyBCD [1] to override the default
Win7 boot loader and while installing Ubuntu make sure not to install the
GRUB2 on MBR partition and instead install it somewhere else. EasyBCD will
load on boot, point to Windows7 and GRUB2 and this will be like any other
chained boot sequence, just that EasyBCD will be first instead of grub.
Now you should be having a dual boot without any issues. But the catch is
you cannot access your recovery partition (which is where your original
licensed copy of Win7 is present) since you no more have a Dell MBR. This
should be a problem only if you want to reinstall your Win7.Dell allows you
to order backup CDs which am told will be sent only once for a
laptop.Ideally you should have created the CD as soon as you booted your
laptop for the first time as suggested by the Dell Wizard. I just have
Windows7 for the servicing guys(if at all i face any hardware issues) and
hence havent bothered booting to it / order those backup CDs.
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyBCD
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Regards
Srikanth.L
http://j.mp/SrikanthL
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