OK, so I wanted to dual boot Ubuntu 13.10 64bit with Windows 7 64bit on my Sony VAIO laptop. I installed Ubuntu to a separate partition (/dev/sda6
) and placed the boot loader with Ubuntu on /dev/sda6
. I rebooted and was taken straight back to windows. It was expected, and I used EasyBCD 2.2 to edit my boot menu and add a GRUB2 (automatically locate and load) to the menu. I rebooted and when I selected it, I got a message saying "Windows Failed to Load". I retried EasyBCD, trying different possibilities like selecting partition 6 instead of the automatic option. It did not work. I re-installed Ubuntu and put the boot loader in /dev/sda
instead. I rebooted and I found myself, again, at the windows bootloader. I used EasyBCD to no avail. I re-installed Ubuntu again with the boot loader back in /dev/sda6
and re-did EasyBCD, and again, failure. The error code was 0xc0000098
. I looked through the partitions that were already set up on my system and I found 6:
/dev/sda1
- fat32 - SONYSYS - hidden/dev/sda2
- ntfs - Recovery - hidden, diag/dev/sda3
- fat32 - [no label] - boot/dev/sda4
- unknown - [no label] - msftres/dev/sda5
- ntfs - [no label] - msftdata/dev/sda6
- ext4 - [no label, ubuntu 13.10 install] - [no flag]
What should I do? Can I please have detailed, specific instructions, because all answers I found did not work for my scenario.
Edit: in case I was unclear, the fail to load error is for Ubuntu, I can still use windows fine.