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I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a machine with Windows 7 already installed. I want to setup the dualboot environment.

I have a block of unallocated disk space at the end of the disk (some blog post suggested to do so). Then I started installing Ubuntu 11.10 on that part of disk. I installed the boot loader to /boot partition and the installation finished successfully.

However, after installation, Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't show up on boot menu. Then I searched on Internet and I used EasyBCD to add a grub2 boot to boot menu. After this, the boot entry does show up in the boot menu, however it only boot into some sort of grub console. I tried many times, and it doesn't work. It looks like the boot loader is not properly installed?

I only have one 1.5TB disk and the first 800GB is NTFS partition with Windows 7. Does this work?

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Have you seen this: help.ubuntu.com/community/… ? Helped me recover from a similar issue. – krlmlr Feb 4 '12 at 11:33
@user946850 I think this issue is different; he didn't install Windows after Ubuntu. – michaelms Feb 7 '12 at 14:55
Neither did I, still the instructions there helped me. – krlmlr Feb 7 '12 at 16:13
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Try pressing Esc right after you BIOS screen to access the grub menu, -> For single Boot OS

For dual boot, wait for the grup menu and choose "Recovery mode". After a successful login on recovery mode try to reboot and use the first one. Tried and tested on my machine :)

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Unused space at end of disks usually 100 MB or a bit more.

Normal Linux distros usually require 5 GB disk space minimum. I have seen at least one smaller one that was a 250MB download. It just cannot fit into 100 MB of unused space.

You can shrink a partition using Disk Management and make space for Linux (in Windows, right-click on My Computer and select Manage).

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