It's been a few years since I dabbled with anything Linux so please bear with me.
I have a Dell Inspiron 3521 that I am trying to setup to dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu.
I formatted the drive clean of Win8, then installed Win7 Ultimate x64 in UEFI mode. Boots great. So far so good.
I then attempted to install Ubuntu, and it did not recognize windows as being installed. It did however give the "something else" else so I figured I'd install then clean up the breaks later on.
I formatted a 540GB XFS partition and an 8gb swap partition. Install completed successfully. The XFS partition shows up as bootable in the UEFI menu and has over 3GB of used space so I know Ubuntu is there, however it's as if Grub doesn't know where to find it. When you turn the laptop on you are greeted by a command line with a prompt that says "grub>".
I vaguely remember having to define in the grub config file the partition and kernel path in order to boot Linux but for the life of me I can't remember the process.
Really appreciate the help in advance.
The Win7 install boots fine from the UEFI menu btw.
I have a Dell Inspiron 3521 that I am trying to setup to dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu.
I formatted the drive clean of Win8, then installed Win7 Ultimate x64 in UEFI mode. Boots great. So far so good.
I then attempted to install Ubuntu, and it did not recognize windows as being installed. It did however give the "something else" else so I figured I'd install then clean up the breaks later on.
I formatted a 540GB XFS partition and an 8gb swap partition. Install completed successfully. The XFS partition shows up as bootable in the UEFI menu and has over 3GB of used space so I know Ubuntu is there, however it's as if Grub doesn't know where to find it. When you turn the laptop on you are greeted by a command line with a prompt that says "grub>".
I vaguely remember having to define in the grub config file the partition and kernel path in order to boot Linux but for the life of me I can't remember the process.
Really appreciate the help in advance.
The Win7 install boots fine from the UEFI menu btw.