I have been unsuccessful in dual-booting my system with Vista and Kubuntu through multiple methods and installations.
My System:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.01 GHz
1 GB RAM (single channel)
Vista Home Premium 64bit edition
Primary HD - 80GB Western Digital (split 50% for Vista/50% Kubuntu)
Other HD's - 400GB, 250GB Western Digital (not used for installation)
When Installing Linux, I used this setup every time:
(I don't completely understand why Kubuntu names the partitions starting at #5 when the root partition sits at the beginning of the second partition)
/root #5 (mount point - /dev/sdb5)
swap #6 (mount point - /dev/sdb6)
home #7 (mount point - /dev/sdb7)
1st attempt:
My System:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.01 GHz
1 GB RAM (single channel)
Vista Home Premium 64bit edition
Primary HD - 80GB Western Digital (split 50% for Vista/50% Kubuntu)
Other HD's - 400GB, 250GB Western Digital (not used for installation)
When Installing Linux, I used this setup every time:
(I don't completely understand why Kubuntu names the partitions starting at #5 when the root partition sits at the beginning of the second partition)
/root #5 (mount point - /dev/sdb5)
swap #6 (mount point - /dev/sdb6)
home #7 (mount point - /dev/sdb7)
1st attempt:
- Installed Vista, then Kubuntu 7.04 with alternate install CD (text-based)
- Setup partitions for Linux
- *Did not install boot loader*
- Finished installation
- Booted into Vista
- Installed EasyBCD
- Installed NeoGrub
- Configured Neo Grub
- title Kubuntu
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic ro root=/dev/sdb5
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic - Can boot into Vista, but when booting with NeoGrub I get a black screen with GRUB and a rapidly blinking _
- title Kubuntu
- Everything is the same, just a new configuration for NeoGrub
- Configured Neo Grub
- title Kubuntu
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic ro root=/dev/sdb5
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic - Can boot into Vista, but when booting with NeoGrub I get a black screen with GRUB and a rapidly blinking _
- title Kubuntu