Hi Joe,
Sorry you're having problems with your dual boot setup. I've never
tried crunchbang in a dual boot set up. I wonder how well it plays with
windows, especially with an EFI drive. I can tell you Ubuntu works well
with Windows 7. In theory, crunchbang should work fine. If I were in
your shoes I'd do the following:
1) Clean install windows 7. Allow windows to partition the drive the
way it wants. This usually means 3 partitions, including a 300MB boot
partition and a 20 GB or so recovery partition in addition to the main.
2)Shrink main windows partition (not the boot or recovery) from within
windows.
3)make windows recovery CD (just in case)
3)Install Crunchbang on free space. Allow Crunchbang to auto partition
the drive (making sure not to touch the windows stuff). Don't do manual
partitioning here.
You shouldn't really need to do anything else.
Good luck.
Chris
On 13-09-29 03:47 PM, Joe Shuttleworth wrote:
I'm having trouble with my computer not booting and was wondering if someone would
be able to help. I have a laptop that was working fine yesterday morning: Acer
Aspire5742z 64 bit. I partitioned the hard drive and installed Windows 7 in the
first partition and Linux in 3 other partitions: / /home and swap. After I installed
Windows everything seemed ok and I did some updates and shut things down. I latter
installed CrunchBang Waldorf. The Linux install didn't go well: I couldn't use any
of the menu to access anything in CrunchBang, all I got was "failed to execute
child process (input/output error). I rebooted and the computer died. I can't boot
into either OS, I can't even boot the System Recovery CD that I have.
I'm hoping someone will have some incite into this. I don't know how much is
hardware or software related. I installed Grub in the MBR. I don't know if that
would cause the problem.
Thanks for any help.
Joe
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