Triple Boot
I am dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8 on their own partitions (both on Primary Partitions). I would like to add Ubuntu 12.04 on a third partition. Three questions:
My understanding is that Grub will not pick up Windows 8 and Windows 7, only Windows 8. Is this correct? If I select Windows 8 in Grub, will it give me the Windows 8 bootloader which includes Windows 7; and Is there anyway to install Ubuntu into the Windows 8 bootloader? I never had luck with Easybcd, but that might be an option, but would prefer not to. Also, I don't care for any kind of VM setup. Any and all info would be appreciated. Thanks guys! |
What is your partition structure? Do you have a partition created/available to install Ubuntu to? You should boot the Ubuntu CD and select the option to try it without installing and then open a terminal and post the output of: fdisk -l (lower case Letter L).
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That would be correct. That is a limitation/requirement of what M$oft choose to do to "dual boot" two versions of Windoze.
There is only one copy of boot code - so there is only one possible place for grub to chainload to. |
Well, I decided to give it a try with EasyBCD and it worked. I get three entries in the Win 8 Bootloader. First time I was ever able to get that software to work. I never thought it would happen but I gotta give the Windows crowd props for insisting it would.
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