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[Died By Bear]

I humble myself to thee and ask why, oh why has this happened to me?


Scenario:

Win 7 64bit (not legal) was installed on my pc about 9 months ago by a person who is awesome, and shall remain nameless so no one starts bugging him for help.

So I go out and buy the Linux bible. It comes with two cds so you can check out all these versions of Linux. But they don't work, won't load for some reason. The book is for 2010...

The only one that does load is DSL damn small linux. Okay I says, I'll download Grub Ubuntu 10.04.1 and make a disk, run off the disk check it out.


I do that and like it, so I decide to install on a dual boot. I assign 126 gigs.

I restart the system, ubuntu works fine, I am loving the o/s.

Then I restart to go back to win 7 and when it's going through the boot up phase, it comes to a screen where you have to move the highlighted bar over win 7 from the one it is on - ubuntu.

Nothing works. I try every key on the keyboard. It just reboots back into ubuntu.

Now, I'm thinking, I'll do some research and try to solve this puzzle. So i come to realize that I probably need to do FIXMBR to repair the master boot record, right? Logic?

Except that when I follow the instructions, and insert the cd rom win 7 to do repair and try FIXMBR, the HDD don't even show up. Nothing works except reinstall win 7 64 bit.

I guess I could get another copy of win 7 - maybe 32 bit?

Is that my problem?

What's my dang gone problem???

[crossmr]

[Died By Bear]

I had two hard drives, one was added after installing win 7 almost 9 months ago. The original drive was partitioned with a smaller c and larger d.

[Maud Kepz]

Try checking in your bios for legacy keyboard options. Am I correct in assuming that you have a USB keyboard? I would assume GRUB can't find your keyboard because it's not PS2. Something like this:
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8316

Hope this helps, failing that post again and we'll get it sorted.

[Giant]

if you want to dual boot.... you should pre-partition your drives. but there are plenty of guides out there. Just search and you shall find.