Having trouble setting up Ubuntu?
Having trouble setting up Ubuntu?
an i7 4770 with 32GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive labeled C: (Windows drive) and a 300GB drive labeled E: where I want Ubuntu installed. The E: drive is formatted Large FAT32 as a bootable ISO for Ubuntu. Here’s the problem. After installing Ubuntu, I reach the homepage but can’t shut down and jump into GRUB. It always boots into Windows. I turned off Secure Boot in UEFI just to be safe, but the repair tool didn’t help. I remember there was a checkbox for third-party apps and scripts during installation—pressing it forced me to enter a password to disable Secure Boot. Once everything is installed and I reboot, I go straight into Windows. I’ll share photos of my partitions after restarting and let you know. The second drive was formatted as unallocated. Should I change it to EXT4? My main drive with Windows is on disk 0, and the E: drive (Ubuntu) is on disk 1. Could that be the issue? Also, I’m planning to install Ubuntu on a USB right now.
You can press F12, or use your fingers quickly across the F keys to access the boot menu.
On my laptop I combined two drives by repartitioning the Windows installer to access free space. After that, I installed Ubuntu 16.04 in the unpartitioned area and set the new partition as the main drive. At startup it asks whether you want to boot Ubuntu or Windows. With multiple disks it doesn’t matter what you do—the BIOS will select a drive unless you know how to create a custom boot loader that lets you pick the operating system.
The new partition will occupy a specific amount of space. You can adjust the size to fit approximately 50GB, allowing more flexibility in defining its dimensions.