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I'm new to Linux and need help for installing ubuntu on my computer.

  • I currently have windows10 installed on a 232 Gb ssd.
  • I have a secondary 2.3 Tb hdd which uses gpt.
  • Windows boots in Legacy BIOS mode, so not with UEFI.

I want to install ubuntu on a partition of the secondary hdd.

I already tried and partitioned my hdd, allocating something like 500Gb to install ubuntu. I created a swap partition of 12 Gb and the rest of the 500 Gb for an ext4 partition. The installation went well and after that I went to my BIOS to choose to boot from my hdd. But that just lead me to a blinking underscore. I also tried to create a 1 Mb BIOS-boot partition but that changed nothing.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Zacharie Ménétrier
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I finally found the problem of my setup and succeed to install a dual boot.

The bios_grub partition needed to be at the beginning of the gpt hdd (100 Gb max from the start of the disk). As I was installing ubuntu in a partition of 500 Gb located at the end of my 2.5 Tb hdd, nothing was found to be booted.

https://askubuntu.com/a/198099/672283

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