Re: Dual boot - have W7 (64 bit), adding lucid (64 bit) - SOLVED only partially
:-)))
This will be, I hope, my last post in this thread.
To make a long story short: I never found the cause, nor even the solution. It is solved, however. Downloading the updates after I had installed for the umpteenth time, I caught a glimpse of a "Grand unifying Grub", or something to that effect. I expect that it may have solved the problem. "it", being an update, quite simply.
To recapitulate: I installed the 32 bit + PAE (see previous post). It gave me a Grub menu that looked normal enough (note that the entry for my Kubuntu version had 'PAE' tagged to it, which confirms what was written in the Ubuntu Forum (that the Linux installation will detect large RAMS and add the PAE, if it finds an internet connection). (In order to allow it to detect my internet connection, I let the Live CD start up the "try Kubuntu" interface and ran the installation from there.) Well, as I said in my last post, the result was no different from the 64 bit install: I had no access to W7.
So I booted once again from the 64 bit live CD, ran the installation again, exactly as I had the first, second, third and fourth times, thinking that I would just keep the inaccessible W7 in the background in case of an emergency. (I know how to access it, but if I do, I will lose Kubuntu), and that I would run XP virtually from Kubuntu on Virtualbox for the few applications that Kubuntu cannot handle.
Then I let in the updates and security fixes. I don't know how many times I rebooted before it occurred to me to retry W7. I think it was when I saw there were two entries for W7, one for Hda1 and one for Hda2. That struck me as odd, so I tried the one for Hda1, and "there was light": W7 booted quietly as though it had been there the entire time, which it had, of course.
I have rebooted a few times now, both into W7 and Kubuntu, to be sure that I am not engaging in wishful thinking. Yes, there is no doubt: Both Kubuntu 64 bit and W7 are booting quite normally.
I must add that I am not altogether happy in my new 64 bit environment, but that is a subject for other threads. The subject of this post was initially to shrink a W7 partition so that I could install another OS, Kubuntu Lucid 64 bit. Shrinking a W7 partition in my computer was successful and installing Kubuntu Lucid 64 bit was successful, so I will go back to the title and mark the thread 'solved'.
The moral being: DOWNLOAD THE BUG FIXES, ETC. BEFORE GIVING UP
Verndog: I see now that you have replied to my previous post. You have obviously seen what I didn't see, (where my W7 partition was!)
:-)))
This will be, I hope, my last post in this thread.
To make a long story short: I never found the cause, nor even the solution. It is solved, however. Downloading the updates after I had installed for the umpteenth time, I caught a glimpse of a "Grand unifying Grub", or something to that effect. I expect that it may have solved the problem. "it", being an update, quite simply.
To recapitulate: I installed the 32 bit + PAE (see previous post). It gave me a Grub menu that looked normal enough (note that the entry for my Kubuntu version had 'PAE' tagged to it, which confirms what was written in the Ubuntu Forum (that the Linux installation will detect large RAMS and add the PAE, if it finds an internet connection). (In order to allow it to detect my internet connection, I let the Live CD start up the "try Kubuntu" interface and ran the installation from there.) Well, as I said in my last post, the result was no different from the 64 bit install: I had no access to W7.
So I booted once again from the 64 bit live CD, ran the installation again, exactly as I had the first, second, third and fourth times, thinking that I would just keep the inaccessible W7 in the background in case of an emergency. (I know how to access it, but if I do, I will lose Kubuntu), and that I would run XP virtually from Kubuntu on Virtualbox for the few applications that Kubuntu cannot handle.
Then I let in the updates and security fixes. I don't know how many times I rebooted before it occurred to me to retry W7. I think it was when I saw there were two entries for W7, one for Hda1 and one for Hda2. That struck me as odd, so I tried the one for Hda1, and "there was light": W7 booted quietly as though it had been there the entire time, which it had, of course.
I have rebooted a few times now, both into W7 and Kubuntu, to be sure that I am not engaging in wishful thinking. Yes, there is no doubt: Both Kubuntu 64 bit and W7 are booting quite normally.
I must add that I am not altogether happy in my new 64 bit environment, but that is a subject for other threads. The subject of this post was initially to shrink a W7 partition so that I could install another OS, Kubuntu Lucid 64 bit. Shrinking a W7 partition in my computer was successful and installing Kubuntu Lucid 64 bit was successful, so I will go back to the title and mark the thread 'solved'.
The moral being: DOWNLOAD THE BUG FIXES, ETC. BEFORE GIVING UP
Verndog: I see now that you have replied to my previous post. You have obviously seen what I didn't see, (where my W7 partition was!)
) I would recommend doing that in gparted, for the reasons given above. 
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