Wednesday, February 21, 2018

dual boot - unable to dualboot win XP with Ubuntu 13.04 on Asus Zenbook UX32a



I recently bought an Asus Zenbook UX32A. Now I'm trying to dualboot it with XP and Ubuntu 13.04.




Both OS's seem to have installed correctly but I just can't boot into grub to let me choose wich OS I want to use. By default XP loads.



I've created separate partitions on my SSD and HDD.
I would like to share the ssd for both OS's but keep all the documents and stuff on the hdd, so I mounted /var and /home to the hdd. / is on the SSD



this is my fdisk output:




WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.



Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc61722b1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 2046 169228287 84613121 5 Extended

Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda4 * 169228288 322826239 76798976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 2048 7812594 3905273+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7815168 15626239 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 15628288 169228287 76800000 83 Linux

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0 GB, 32017047552 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3892 cylinders, total 62533296 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfed1007e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 30722047 15360000 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 * 30722048 62529535 15903744 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT


Disk /dev/sdc: 8095 MB, 8095006720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 984 cylinders, total 15810560 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xefacefac


Here is my Boot Repair log




Might the failure to load GRUB 2 be linked to some EFI-thing?
All help will be truly appreciated, I'm actually stuck!



I never trust automatical tools, like Boot Repair. This question is fine example of why do they not deserve my trust. I've seen many ways of how one can manually do the things that BR does. Steps you should perform:




  1. Boot from LiveCD/LiveUSB

  2. Launch Terminal: Ctrl+Alt+T

  3. Run:




    sudo su
    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
    grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdb
    for i in /sys /proc /run /dev; do mount --bind "$i" "/mnt$i"; done
    chroot /mnt
    update-grub
    exit
    umount /mnt/dev /mnt/proc /mnt/sys /mnt/run /mnt
    exit


  4. Reboot, enter your BIOS and check that you boot from /dev/sdb



After that, your Ubuntu should start without problems.



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