Hey Facepunch. I'm just wondering if it's possible to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7, with Ubuntu being on my secondary drive on a different partition.
Example:
First Drive
C) Windows
Second Drive
D) Shared Data
E) Ubuntu
Thanks in advance!
Yes, GRUB will check for operating system on all connected hard-drives.
Great, so after I've installed Ubuntu, I guess GRUB will overwrite the MBR and then I can boot into Windows and use EasyBCD to put it back to the Vista/7 Bootloader?
If you're installing Ubuntu it will install GRUB to the MBR of the first drive (the windows one).
If you put the windows bootloader back on the MBR you won't be able to boot your Ubuntu partition.
I know that you can chainload another Bootloader using EasyBCD. You would need to manually install GRUB on the MBR of the second drive or at the start of the Ubuntu Partition.
You could also keep GRUB.
Awesome. So I'm guessing if I go along with this, I'll install Ubuntu 'along side other operating systems' and then when It's done, I'll be able to boot into either Ubuntu or Windows using GRUB?
Sorry for asking all these questions, I'm just wanting to make sure that my Windows won't get wiped or I won't mess up anywhere and not be able to get back into Windows.
Yes you'll be able to.
I'm not sure if the "install alongside another OS" does it.
IIRC, It resizes the windows partition and installs on the free space it made itself.
If you're going to have a data partition as well. It would be best to partition manually. I'm assuming you get around a partitioner.
For a basic system you want to have 1 swap partition the size of your RAM or more. You also want to have another partition with the rest of the space formatted as ext4 mounted to /.
You can also set the mount point of the data partition.
You'll end up with:
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First HDD (sda):
Windows Partition (ntfs)
Second HDD (sdb):
Data parition (ntfs or fat32) mounted on (/data or /windows or something like that) Size: whatever you want
Root partition (ext4) Mounted on / Size: what's left
swap (swap) size: your RAM
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I've made the partitions (haven't formatted the Ubuntu one) in Windows, and I'm going to install now.
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Thanks by the way.
If all the partitions are already set all you need is to set their FS and mount points in the partitioner and let it run.
I'm all dual-booted now, everything is working perfectly, thanks!
My pleasure.
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