I dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and decided to upgrade 12.04 to 13.04 "Raring Ringtail". I had a 2GB USB stick but no DVD-R so I opted to use the USB installer provided at pendrivelinux.com as recommended by ubuntu.com after downloading the 13.04 amd64 ISO from the Ubuntu site. I decided to do the overwrite method built into the pendrive instead of upgrading my 12.04 since my 12.04 had some file issues that I didn't want to possibly inherit. I also didn't want to as a novice fiddle with the partitioning and whatnot, and with the pendrive installation I didn't have to.
Anyway, the pendrive seemed to install Ringtail fine, but at the point after installation where it said I have to restart the computer, some weird stuff happened. For one, the boot order said Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, NOT 13.04. When I tried to boot Ubuntu it had some "missing modules" and "does not exist" warnings, even though I checked the pendrive disc for errors and it said it was fine. Re-booting from the USB gave me the options "Reinstall Ubuntu 13.04", or "Erase Ubuntu 13.04 and reinstall". The first said I did not select any partitions to use as swap space, even though previously it had automatically done that for me. The second said the partitions were too small. These were the auto-selections that seemed to work before. Also, why did it say 12.04 in the boot order if the USB says 13.04 was installed?
I want to make sure this is not an error with the Raring Ringtail amd64 release before I learn to mess with the partitions, which is intimidating. Partition info is here and here if it's relevant (I don't know much about partitioning but probably need to learn it to solve this). What should I do? I'm sort of a novice and have a lot more to learn about Linux...
TL;DR Ubuntu 13.04 amd64 USB pendrive created bizarre errors, I have no idea what's going on with my partitions now, but it did install something and reads the partitions differently.
Anyway, the pendrive seemed to install Ringtail fine, but at the point after installation where it said I have to restart the computer, some weird stuff happened. For one, the boot order said Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, NOT 13.04. When I tried to boot Ubuntu it had some "missing modules" and "does not exist" warnings, even though I checked the pendrive disc for errors and it said it was fine. Re-booting from the USB gave me the options "Reinstall Ubuntu 13.04", or "Erase Ubuntu 13.04 and reinstall". The first said I did not select any partitions to use as swap space, even though previously it had automatically done that for me. The second said the partitions were too small. These were the auto-selections that seemed to work before. Also, why did it say 12.04 in the boot order if the USB says 13.04 was installed?
I want to make sure this is not an error with the Raring Ringtail amd64 release before I learn to mess with the partitions, which is intimidating. Partition info is here and here if it's relevant (I don't know much about partitioning but probably need to learn it to solve this). What should I do? I'm sort of a novice and have a lot more to learn about Linux...
TL;DR Ubuntu 13.04 amd64 USB pendrive created bizarre errors, I have no idea what's going on with my partitions now, but it did install something and reads the partitions differently.