I also have one more startup question. I chose to install Ubuntu MATE alongside Windows 7 and chose the installer to do it for me. The installation was done on SDB1 i think, what is the partition program in Ubuntu called to check this. Also GRUB does not start when the computer does, windows 7 starts cause the bootloader for windows 7 is on the first disk i think is the reason… Thsnk!
Gparted is the partition program in Ubuntu, when you’re in a live session of Ubuntu launch Gparted.
Have you tried using EasyBCD?
For example:
When I install Ubuntu, to not overwrite the Windows MBR, I choose to install grub on the same root partition. Or you can create a small partition for the / boot.
After I run the dual boot by installing Easybdc on Windows 7,
and from menu of EasyBDC I add a new entry for Ubuntu.
On Windows7 I installed the EasyBCD 2.2. version.
Hi i just want to reply to you.
I have tried gparted but my problem there is you cannot initialize disks as far as i have understood.
I do have Parted Magic on a startup DVD but i cannot boot from it now it seems there is something
wrong with the DVD unfortunately. I have linux GRUB on /dev/sdc and i will install the windows OS
on /dev/sda1 so i will just enter the boot menu (pressing F8) and choose witch disk to boot from when
using different OS’s. Witch is OK for me.
OK,
With that software you would not need to press F8 or to get in the bios, but it’s not required , unlike those with only one disk.
Ok. Thank you for your reply
I have downloaded the EasyBCD. My linux distro is on one SSD and my windows OS is on another. I think the bootloader is on the SSD with linux and one on the SSD with windows. Do you think EasyBCD can fix my dual booting now?
I’m sorry, I do not know if ssd work like hard drives. It is better that you ask the EasyBDC forum
As I understand SSD’s are still a block device and behave as such.
As for EasyBCD better to ask someone who has bought/used this tool, do they have a forum?
If this is a desktop it would be easy to find out where the bootloader is by detaching the wires to the respective hard drives and booting them independently. Then swap connections according to which system you want to boot, crude but effective.
If sdb1 has linux on and sda1 (the digit is the partition, the letters the device) is Windoze then this is simple but I don’t know how a dvd/usbdrive automatic installation will react when you have 2 drives plugged in, ie how it will treat the respective drives as opposed to one partition on one drive.
In other words it might have been easier if you had unplugged the windows drive to begin with and plugged it back in again later, then run update-grub.
However, you might find that linux is installed on the first drive, in which case delete that partition (the linux one) expand the windows one and reinstall the linux on the second drive, but unplug the first one while doing so.