grub installation to boot partition fails

[Jeremy Williams]

I'm trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 (I did 12.04 before but discovered it has unsolved bugs for nvidia graphics).

I used this tutorial (that was actually for Ubuntu 11.04, so maybe that's part of the problem). http://linuxbsdos.com/ask/2011/10/dual-boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-11-10/

I followed the tutorial completely, but at the end, when installation of Ubuntu should have completed, I got an error saying that installation of the boot loader failed. I tried installing in the default partition, but I got the same error message.

I have a Dell XPS L502X.

Hope this helps.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sat Jun 23 14:55:17 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeremy Williams (jeremy-williams-online)]

I solved the issue, but now I have a different bug that I'll post separately.

The dual boot instructions that I linked to didn't specify that the '/' mounted partition should be a "primary" instead of "logical" one.

Following the instructions at the following link fixed the issue:
http://thpc.info/dual/win7/dualboot_win7+ubuntu1110_grub_mbr_on_win7.html

[dino99 (9d9)]

oneiric have reached EOL now