[RESOLVED] booting selection

Hi there i have installed zorin along side of windows 7. But when the computer starts and go's to choose operating system it will not let me. It has press e to choose boot selection. But when i do nothing happens and i can not choose which operating system i want to use, and boots straight into zorin. Any advice would be greatful.

Boot the live Zorin cd and once it boots, open a terminal and type:

Code:

sudo update-grub

press enter twice then restart without the live cd and see if it gives you a normal Grub menu.

Thank you for the reply. I did exactly like you said but with the same out come. It shows the screen in which to choose your operating system. But just like last time i go to hit the E button to pick boot selection and it wont work. I dont know it;s got me stumped.

Hi,

try downloading a copy of "Boot Repair" and see if that helps:

http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/

Did you burn your disk at the slowest possible speed?:

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Hi, E is for editing the boot menu not for choosing! You should have a list of your operating systems starting with Zorin and windows below - did you run the update command after installation?

Open a terminal (Ctrl+ Alt+ T) and enter:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

Then check out Wolfman's excellent Post-Install guide!

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Well i got it working, all i had to do was plug in my ps2 keyboard and it will now let me choose which operating system to use. So happy

OK, a little information can help us to put you on the road to a solution - so your wireless keyboard did not work yes? Now that you have it working with ps/2 keyboard, switch off machine, put wireless transmitter in PC, remove ps/2 keyboard and see if it works on next boot!

Please let us know if it works?