The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15R (Queen). It comes with Windows 7, and I want to install Ubuntu 11.10 on a different partition
The system has 3 primary partitions already:
- a 100MB partition in FAT with 33MB used - located at the beginning of the drive
- a Dell back-up partition - 15GB
- the system partition
I did the proper defrag, etc. on Windows and then installed the system using the partition manager option.
Here comes the first problem, it asks me where should I install GRUB. I have tried the 3 existing partitions (putting aside the ones I've created for the Linux install), but none of them worked. Windows 7 keeps on booting without the GRUB prompt ever appearing.
I've also tried to put GRUB on the newly created Ubuntu partitions, but nothing happened either. I know that the system is installed since the options of Ubuntu Live CD include new options such as to install over the already existing Ubuntu system, but I can't get GRUB to work.
The system has the following features:
- 6GB RAM
- 650GB HDD
- Intel Core i7 Processor
- 1GB Nvidia M525 Graphics
It's the 15R "Queen" setup.