Trying to dual boot

Matthew-1985 · 29 Aug 2006 at 11:36

I have Windows XP on a SATA hard drive and just installed Ubuntu on a IDE hard drive but when the computer starts it does not give me the option of what OS to start and loads stright in to Windows. I installed Ubuntu on another computer and it works fine giving you a choice when you start up but that computer has 2 IDE drives. How can I fix it? :confused:

Thanks.

Echo toxin · 29 Aug 2006 at 12:02

Matthew-1985 said:
I have Windows XP on a SATA hard drive and just installed Ubuntu on a IDE hard drive but when the computer starts it does not give me the option of what OS to start and loads stright in to Windows. I installed Ubuntu on another computer and it works fine giving you a choice when you start up but that computer has 2 IDE drives. How can I fix it?

Thanks.

Try setting your IDE drive to be the first hard drive in the BIOS boot options. Same thing happened to me.

FirebarUK · 29 Aug 2006 at 12:16

^ yeah. It could be that ubuntu installed the bootloader into root (/) on the IDE drive. Hence if its booting off the SATA disk, it'll go straight into windows.

Matthew-1985 · 29 Aug 2006 at 12:18

Echo toxin said:
Try setting your IDE drive to be the first hard drive in the BIOS boot options. Same thing happened to me.

That worked. Thanks for the help.