[Wolves] Dual boot failing - Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu

[Nick Hall]

UEFI - whats that? I'll check. I think I installed 64 Bit - i'll check on that too. It was on a disc and I placed it face up with the 64 bit logo on it. I assume that its 64 bit. 
 
Thanks
nick
 
 


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From: Dave Morley <davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk>
To: wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 14:06
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Dual boot failing - Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu


On 07/01/14 13:50, Nick Hall wrote: 

> Hi All,
>  
> And its me again. Last night I decided to install Ubuntu (13.10). I
> bought a Linux Ubuntu magazine and followed the instructions religously.
>  
> My laptop is an Acer N56V and already had on it Windows 8.1. So I
> defragged the hard drive, then shrank the disc to half its size and
> allocated 350GB for Linux.
>  
> I booted up, and followed the Ubuntu instructions closely, making sure I
> created a volumne (sda3) for Linux and a swap volume. Then rebooted and
> the laptop goes straight into Windows 8.1.
>  
> I checked the information on GRUB (?) and then followed some
> instructions to reload GRUB into the live Linux version (I was using a
> boot up disc). I did exactly what it said and still the same problem.
> Books straight into Windows 8.1.  I have NO idea whats wrong.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Cheers
> nick
> 
> 
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Nick

Due to the fact this machine has windows 8.1 on it. I am assuming
therefore that it is a uefi machine what happens if you pause the boot
go into the menu and select the Ubuntu disk?  Also did you do a 64bit
install in the fress space a lot of the time the magazine cd's come with
32 and 64bit if you did a 32bit install then the uefi will be ignored
and it won't boot but just display an error.

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