** Description changed: Initial situation: HP Touchsmart 520, 64bit 4GB, pre-installed Windows7 (on sda1 and sda2), non-GPT disk, 356Go unpartitionned space after Windows. Installed Ubuntu 11.10 via automatic installer. Ubiquity gave no errors nor warnings during install. - After install: + After install: - after reboot, no access to Ubuntu. PC boots directly to Windows. - see attached files: /var/log/installer/syslog , /var/log/installer/partman and debug files, - see BootInfo summary created via Boot-Repair: http://paste.ubuntu.com/890361 (apparently boot is in EFI mode) - Ubuntu contains /boot/grub/grub.cfg , but no core.img and no grub.efi - MBR has not be modified (it contains no GRUB) + + + WORKAROUND: purge and reinstall grub-pc via Boot-Repair, with nomodeset option, allowed to obtain GRUB menu with access to Ubuntu and Windows. See resulting BootInfo: http://paste.ubuntu.com/891331 + + That means Ubiquity should not try to install grub-efi on this system, + but grub-pc (+nomodeset) instead.
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