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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dave Morley <davmor2@davmor2.co.uk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 14:06<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Wolves] Dual boot failing - Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=y_msg_container><BR>On 07/01/14 13:50, Nick Hall wrote:
<DIV id=yqtfd81191 class=yqt1083986497><BR clear=none>> Hi All,<BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> And its me again. Last night I decided to install Ubuntu (13.10). I<BR clear=none>> bought a Linux Ubuntu magazine and followed the instructions religously.<BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> My laptop is an Acer N56V and already had on it Windows 8.1. So I<BR clear=none>> defragged the hard drive, then shrank the disc to half its size and<BR clear=none>> allocated 350GB for Linux.<BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> I booted up, and followed the Ubuntu instructions closely, making sure I<BR clear=none>> created a volumne (sda3) for Linux and a swap volume. Then rebooted and<BR clear=none>> the laptop goes straight into Windows 8.1.<BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> I checked the information on GRUB (?) and then followed some<BR clear=none>> instructions to reload GRUB into the live Linux version
(I was using a<BR clear=none>> boot up disc). I did exactly what it said and still the same problem.<BR clear=none>> Books straight into Windows 8.1. I have NO idea whats wrong.<BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> Any ideas?<BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> Cheers<BR clear=none>> nick</DIV><BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> <BR clear=none>> _______________________________________________<BR clear=none>> Wolves LUG mailing list<BR clear=none>> Homepage: <A href="http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/" shape=rect target=_blank>http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/</A><BR clear=none>> Mailing list: <A href="mailto:Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk" shape=rect ymailto="mailto:Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk">Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk</A><BR clear=none>> Mailing list home: <A href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves" shape=rect target=_blank>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves</A><BR clear=none>> <BR
clear=none>Nick<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>Due to the fact this machine has windows 8.1 on it. I am assuming<BR clear=none>therefore that it is a uefi machine what happens if you pause the boot<BR clear=none>go into the menu and select the Ubuntu disk? Also did you do a 64bit<BR clear=none>install in the fress space a lot of the time the magazine cd's come with<BR clear=none>32 and 64bit if you did a 32bit install then the uefi will be ignored<BR clear=none>and it won't boot but just display an error.<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>-- <BR clear=none>You make it, I'll break it!<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>I love my job :)<BR clear=none><A href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" shape=rect target=_blank>http://www.ubuntu.com/</A><BR clear=none><A href="http://www.canonical.com/" shape=rect target=_blank>http://www.canonical.com/</A>
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