Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem
Dhanagopal R <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:52:53 +0000
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Hi, --- On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dhanagopal R <[email protected]> wrote: | 1, OEM 39mb OEM partion (Not sure logical or primary) | 2, Recovery partition 29 Gb (Not sure logical or primary) \-- Do these show up when you install Ubuntu? # yes --- | As I am not sure whether the first two partitions or primary or logical, \-- Check in the UI or in fdisk output when you boot from the Live CD. #Below is the output of fdisk -l command ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x58c35ab5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 de Dell Utility Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. (what is it mean ? Will it cause any problem while installing ubuntu boot loader?) /dev/sda2 * 81920 45518847 22718464 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE /dev/sda3 45518848 784074751 369277952 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 784074752 1465145343 340535296 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 784076800 1132236799 174080000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda6 1132238848 1465145343 166453248 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT --- | I preferred a | /boot partition to install boot loader there to use windows boot loader \-- The bootloader gets installed in the first 512 bytes and is called the Master Boot Record (MBR). You really don't need a large /boot. --- | As somebody suggested, I can also wait for the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. \-- If you have run out of primary partitions, waiting for Ubuntu 16.04 is not going to solve anything. Please check your primary partitions. # To install Ubuntu is it mandatory to have all the partitions as primary? What about creating /boot and /root as primary and /home as logical? Kindly check the above partition detail and advise whether, I could install Ubuntu 14,04 in my Windows 7 laptop to dual boot. What does it mean Regards, _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines