Grub, dual booting Windows and Ubuntu on seperate Hard Drives, Error 2

engstrom0304 · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:02

Hi,
I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 x64 on a ide hard drive, i already had vista on a sata drive.

When it came to boot it said Grub stage 1.5 (or somthing)

Please wait...

Error 2

Apparently this means it cannot find the drive or something.

This is my first linux installation so i dont know much on the topic...

Help?

engstrom0304 · 1 Nov 2008 at 18:47

sorry im lost
1. When do i press E twice?
2. How do i find menu.list.

HELP ME!

Could someone give me a step by step way of doing this?

By the way i have burned ubuntu to a disk.

engstrom0304 · 1 Nov 2008 at 18:48

how do i get to the 'terminal'

you may guess i havnt used linux before.

engstrom0304 · 1 Nov 2008 at 18:57

Dj_Jestar said:
Identify which is your Linux drive, and which is your Windows drive,

How do i do that?

engstrom0304 · 1 Nov 2008 at 22:27

firstly, when i type fdisk -l it does nothing. Also should it be on ubuntu@ubuntu:~ as the title because fdisk -l shows nothing.

Also how do i edit menu.lst as sudo?

engstrom0304 · 2 Nov 2008 at 09:59

I could try reinstalling ubuntu on my ide drive, while the ohter drive is unplugged then i plug my other drive. Have *** vista drive as default in bios but press F8 on startup to boot the ide drive.