I'm trying to set up Ubuntu 12.04 alongside my Windows 7 install.
I put the iso onto a flash drive, managed to install everything, but when I restart the computer after completing the installation, I have no boot options and Windows loads automatically.
This makes me think that maybe I installed the bootloader in the wrong place and maybe BIOS can't find it.
This is a screenshot of my disk partitions from Windows:
Basically, Ubuntu should go to the 360GB slot on Disk 1, but I actually tried installing the bootloader in that partition, as well as in the root of that disk. Neither were recognized during start-up.
I'm hesitant to try to install it over my main boot (disk 0 :core) as this is a NTFS file system versus the ext4 file system that I'm trying to install Ubuntu with.
I've now tried installing the bootloader on /dev/sda
(Disk 0) -- where my Windows boot is located. I've checked to make sure BIOS is booting from this disk first, and I still have no boot options to select Windows 7 or Ubuntu. How can I diagnose this problem further?
I'm just looking for the easiest way to get things running without affecting my Windows too much.
Any tips/advice?