Adventures with Ubuntu
So I tried to install Ubuntu onto my laptop. I followed a guide for installing alongside Windows 8. Created a 20 gig partition for it to sit in, disabled secure boot ect ect. Then I loaded up the live CD and went at it. First my partition I created was not showing up. I just installed with the default settings and the slider selected to 20 gigs. Ubuntu installs, I dink around with it and then head back to Windows 8. Restart and the grub menu pops up. I arrow down to Windows 8 and, like I knew it would in the back of my mind, Windows 8 boot sector was nuked. "Thanks grub," I said to myself. I installing and doing boot-repair with terminal but it locked me out of sudo because my account didn't have a password (I removed it before I started using terminal). Then when I tried to put a password back on using the user panel, it locked me out. Buttfrustrated, I went to bed (it was well past midnight). When I woke in the morning and started at the problem again I found the simple solution as : passwd (or was it passwrd) and it let me put one in through the terminal. After that I tried doing boot-repair. That didn't work because it says Ubuntu is SA9 and not SA7 or 2. Then I tried testdisk and it said that it worked but it was still being a stuffhead and the boot sector was still forgeted. Defeated, I just system restore'd Windows and here I am right now.
