Submitted by mistercliff on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 06:20
Looking forward to trying out Dream Studio, but after an installation that appears to have gone fine, it boots straight into Windows 7 (64bit) without giving me a boot menu option. Any thoughts?
I suppose the first thing I'll ask is whether you've got Windows 7 and Dream Studio sharing a hard drive, or are they on separate drives? Either way, it sounds like you have a problem with the GRUB2 bootloader. If they are on the same drive, follow the instructions here: http://www.ohbuntu.blogspot.com/2009/11/repair-grub2-after-install-windows-7.html. You should use a Dream Studio installation disc, however, and not the Ubuntu Karmic Koala disc they recommend.
If Dream Studio and Windows 7 are on separate hard drives (or USB drives), the steps would be all the same except you'd have to make sure that you install GRUB to the proper hard drive. I.E.: if Windows is currently installed on /dev/sda1, and Dream Studio is on /dev/sdb1 (or /dev/sdc, etc...), and you want to install GRUB to /dev/sda (which is probably where Windows has installed its 'dbootloader if it was the only OS on the PC when it was installed), you'd type "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/root", and susequently "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda". On the other hand, if you wish to leave your Windows installation completely alone, you'd issue the command "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sdb". If you install GRUB on a different hard drive, though, you'll have to select that drive in the boot options of your BIOS (let me know if that's what you want to do - it's a little more complex, but can usually be found when you boot your computer and it gives you a message like "boot options - F9" or something similar".
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I suppose the first thing I'll ask is whether you've got Windows 7 and Dream Studio sharing a hard drive, or are they on separate drives? Either way, it sounds like you have a problem with the GRUB2 bootloader. If they are on the same drive, follow the instructions here: http://www.ohbuntu.blogspot.com/2009/11/repair-grub2-after-install-windows-7.html. You should use a Dream Studio installation disc, however, and not the Ubuntu Karmic Koala disc they recommend.
If Dream Studio and Windows 7 are on separate hard drives (or USB drives), the steps would be all the same except you'd have to make sure that you install GRUB to the proper hard drive. I.E.: if Windows is currently installed on /dev/sda1, and Dream Studio is on /dev/sdb1 (or /dev/sdc, etc...), and you want to install GRUB to /dev/sda (which is probably where Windows has installed its 'dbootloader if it was the only OS on the PC when it was installed), you'd type "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/root", and susequently "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda". On the other hand, if you wish to leave your Windows installation completely alone, you'd issue the command "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sdb". If you install GRUB on a different hard drive, though, you'll have to select that drive in the boot options of your BIOS (let me know if that's what you want to do - it's a little more complex, but can usually be found when you boot your computer and it gives you a message like "boot options - F9" or something similar".
Hope this helps!