ranjb Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Hi All I have a CLEVO laptop and it currently has Windows 7 installed. I now want to create a separate partition to install Ubunutu 9.10 64bit. I attempted to install this and the install part worked fine but as soon as I rebooted all I seem to be getting after the BIOS is 'grub loading'. I get no other error messages and am stumped on what the problem is. I have looked at other threads on here and other forums and it seemed to say the problem could be with BIOS. It also meant I couldnt load windows either but I fixed this by loading the windows cd, running repair and then fixing the MBR which another thread mentioned. Once this was done windows loading up ok. I have checked nearly every setting and it has made no difference. Can anyone help? I tried reinstalling 9.10 but came up with the same problem. I am not sure what I did in Windows may have caused it. I have a 320gb drive and I shrunk it using disk management as I know the ubuntu will see this free space and install the OS onto it. Should I have left this and let 9.10 create some space automatically during install? If anyone can advise what I am doing wrong it would be most appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom01 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I had this problem the other day. I think it's something to do with the boot loader being installed on the wrong partition? I just re-installed Ubuntu and made sure the boot loader was installed on the Ubuntu partition. Was all fine then. Sure someone will come along and correct me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillAholic Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 If you have free space, Ubuntu should be able to set up there. I would recommend what tom01 said and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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