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<blockquote data-quote="polarizeme" data-source="post: 7729" data-attributes="member: 7922">I tried grub, supergrub and easybcd to get the windows bootloader to take control and actually list ubuntu. nothing worked.however... I finally got grub to work and load Ubuntu... sort of.my previous problem was with the windows 7 bootloader, but now it's not - it's with grub and ubuntu (as of about 20 minutes ago) so I'll just consider this case closed.*however*for anyone else reading this that is having a problem installing Ubuntu on a box already running Windows7, try the following:Instead of following the advice of tutorials and shrinking the partition in Windows to make free space for the Ubuntu install, keep the partition size the same.instead of using the &quot;guided install on all free space&quot; option when installing Ubuntu, use the (top?) option to choose your Ubuntu partion size with the slider.for some reason, using Ubuntu to resize the partition and install itself seems to work WAY better than sizing it in windows and using the continuous free space already there.cheers everyone!and here's to Windows7 knocking the socks off of Vista... because so far it does. =]&nbsp;&nbsp; - Tristan -</blockquote>

[QUOTE="polarizeme, post: 7729, member: 7922"] I tried grub, supergrub and easybcd to get the windows bootloader to take control and actually list ubuntu. nothing worked. however... I finally got grub to work and load Ubuntu... sort of. my previous problem was with the windows 7 bootloader, but now it's not - it's with grub and ubuntu (as of about 20 minutes ago) so I'll just consider this case closed. *however* for anyone else reading this that is having a problem installing Ubuntu on a box already running Windows7, try the following: Instead of following the advice of tutorials and shrinking the partition in Windows to make free space for the Ubuntu install, keep the partition size the same. instead of using the "guided install on all free space" option when installing Ubuntu, use the (top?) option to choose your Ubuntu partion size with the slider. for some reason, using Ubuntu to resize the partition and install itself seems to work WAY better than sizing it in windows and using the continuous free space already there. cheers everyone! and here's to Windows7 knocking the socks off of Vista... because so far it does. =] - Tristan - [/QUOTE]

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