Hi,

I am installing ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual boot with my windows 7. I have an HP pavilion g6 RAM 4GB and DD 500GB but I have encounter severals problems when installing.
1- the grub does t start after installing. its starts directly on ubuntu
2- When I issue the command sudo fdisk -l its give a partition problem from a live cd

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

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: 0xd5f2444c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 131071 64512 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 131072 294088703 146978816 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 294088704 703698943 204805120 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 703700991 976771071 136535040+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 703700992 762292223 29295616 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 762294272 770105343 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 770107392 976771071 103331840 83 Linux

In addition when i saw the partition table it give this results from a live CD

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA HGST HTS545050A7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 67.1MB 66.1MB primary ntfs boot
2 67.1MB 151GB 151GB primary ntfs
3 151GB 360GB 210GB primary ntfs
4 360GB 500GB 140GB extended lba
5 360GB 390GB 30.0GB logical ext4
6 390GB 394GB 3999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
7 394GB 500GB 106GB logical ext4


Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

Please. can some one give me an assistance to terminate the process of installation. Thanks a lot.

If you do not see an entry for windows when booting, the first step to try to eliminate the problem is to run: sudo update-grub; watch the output for a windows entry.

If that doesn't help, you can try reviewing the tutorial below for installing Ubuntu 14.04 which is very detailed and includes a section on dual booting. Compare the steps suggested in the tutorial to what you did.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/u...all-guide.html

If you are still unable to resolve the problem, I would suggest you do an online search for "boot repair ubuntu" and go to the site and download and run the script. Make sure you select the option to Create Bootinfo summary" rather than trying to do any repairs. This will output a lot of information which should be helpful in trying to resolve the problem. Post a link to the output here.