hi all.
i recently passed to the linux world. i got myself an ubuntu, and i loaded the cinamon UI. so far so good.
but, i still need some windows7 os anyway. some of my softwares are not ported on linux. ok. i'll just dual boot it.
so, i bought a brand new blank ssd, i sticked my W7 flashdrive installation, made a partition for it in ntfs, and installed it.
so far so good.
so i sticked my ubuntu flashdrive, and installed it on the other partition. in ext4.
works. fantastik.
now, when i power on the computer, grub asked me if i wanted to go ubuntu, ubuntu advanced recovery and such. but no windows.
i found a way to enter windows pressing f11 when rebooting and forcing the system to boot on the win partition.
futher research led me to think it was a mbr/uefi missmatch problem. and grub cant see or access legacy mbr.
so, i did what came to mind. i tried to convert the first partition to efi. i found a command line to do that.
and there is when the real problems came.
now no matter what i do, i can only access a grub comand line if i want to boot from the hard drive.
i reinstalled and w7 and ubuntu, reformated everything, cant do anything.
when installed, it boots only once into the system, then after the restart, i only get a grub command line. (and i don undestand anything to the grub command line)
any guru here to point me what i did wrong or what to do to fix this ?
i recently passed to the linux world. i got myself an ubuntu, and i loaded the cinamon UI. so far so good.
but, i still need some windows7 os anyway. some of my softwares are not ported on linux. ok. i'll just dual boot it.
so, i bought a brand new blank ssd, i sticked my W7 flashdrive installation, made a partition for it in ntfs, and installed it.
so far so good.
so i sticked my ubuntu flashdrive, and installed it on the other partition. in ext4.
works. fantastik.
now, when i power on the computer, grub asked me if i wanted to go ubuntu, ubuntu advanced recovery and such. but no windows.
i found a way to enter windows pressing f11 when rebooting and forcing the system to boot on the win partition.
futher research led me to think it was a mbr/uefi missmatch problem. and grub cant see or access legacy mbr.
so, i did what came to mind. i tried to convert the first partition to efi. i found a command line to do that.
and there is when the real problems came.
now no matter what i do, i can only access a grub comand line if i want to boot from the hard drive.
i reinstalled and w7 and ubuntu, reformated everything, cant do anything.
when installed, it boots only once into the system, then after the restart, i only get a grub command line. (and i don undestand anything to the grub command line)
any guru here to point me what i did wrong or what to do to fix this ?