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SwishSpencor

SwishSpencor

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I've just installed Ubuntu on a seperate drive to my XP so I could have them both running with dual boot, it all seemed to be going well until it asked me to restart.

I restarted and it just booted into windows with no option of loading Ubuntu.

How the hell do I get it to work :confused:
 
change your boot options to allow the bios to find the grub bootloader.
You obviously picked the wrong options during install.
 
brummie said:
change your boot options to allow the bios to find the grub bootloader.
You obviously picked the wrong options during install.
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How do I do that?

All I did was select an empty partition on my SATA drive an formatted it to ext3 and set a smaller partition on my ATA drive to swap an clicked install. Ubuntu did the rest.
 
Having re read it (missed you put ATA) your MBR will be on your first drive, the ATA one.

Go into your bios and change your boot options to HD0 instead of SATA.
 
brummie said:
Having re read it (missed you put ATA) your MBR will be on your first drive, the ATA one.

Go into your bios and change your boot options to HD0 instead of SATA.
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I have Windows on my ATA drive and Ubuntu on my SATA drive.

Should I reinstall Ubuntu onto the same drive as my Windows [seperate partition] and have the swap on my SATA drive?
 
When your computer boots, the bios uses a list of disks to boot from, which it tries in turn.

When you install Ubuntu, GRUB is installed on one of your hard disks. Which one will be dependent on how many disks you have, which ones are detected etc.

So, the first thing I would try would be to change the order which your bios checks disks, first one way, then the other. Or another option is to unplug one drive at a time, so that the bios is forced to choose that HD.

My personal preference is to have Windows/Ubuntu on separate disks. Then you can point GRUB at your windows install, and load from your Ubuntu drive first. That way you have 2 separate OSes, so that if one disk/OS goes down, you still have a clean OS/disk to boot from.
 
Which ever you put it on it seems something is going wrong when you install grub or selecting the partitions.
Ubuntu will automatically put the boot loader on the first drive unless you specify a different one. The first drive on your system will be the ATA drive.

And why are you worrying about the swap being on a different drive?
 
brummie said:
Which ever you put it on it seems something is going wrong when you install grub or selecting the partitions.
Ubuntu will automatically put the boot loader on the first drive unless you specify a different one. The first drive on your system will be the ATA drive.

And why are you worrying about the swap being on a different drive?
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I'm not worrying about the swap being on a diff drive, thats just the only place there is room lol.

JonC said:
When your computer boots, the bios uses a list of disks to boot from, which it tries in turn.

When you install Ubuntu, GRUB is installed on one of your hard disks. Which one will be dependent on how many disks you have, which ones are detected etc.

So, the first thing I would try would be to change the order which your bios checks disks, first one way, then the other. Or another option is to unplug one drive at a time, so that the bios is forced to choose that HD.

My personal preference is to have Windows/Ubuntu on separate disks. Then you can point GRUB at your windows install, and load from your Ubuntu drive first. That way you have 2 separate OSes, so that if one disk/OS goes down, you still have a clean OS/disk to boot from.
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I've installed Ubuntu on the same drive as my Windows, which is the only drive that is detected with bios, the 2 SATA drives I have are RAID and arn't showing up as an option on the bios.

So my comp must be checking the drive that I installed Ubuntu on because it's the same drive as Windows, but it doesn't load or give me the option to load it.

I don't get why it isn't giving me the option to load it, it installed fine and didn't say there was any errors.
 
If your using onboard RAID then Ubuntu isnt going to use it.

Install ubuntu on your ATA drive and make sure the biso boots from the ATA drive and not anything else.

When selecting the boot loader during Ubuntu install make sure you install it to the MBR of the ATA drive.
 
brummie said:
If your using onboard RAID then Ubuntu isnt going to use it.

Install ubuntu on your ATA drive and make sure the biso boots from the ATA drive and not anything else.

When selecting the boot loader during Ubuntu install make sure you install it to the MBR of the ATA drive.
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Did you read my post?
It's installed on the ATA drive now and still have the same problem, I didn't see an option to select the boot loader when installin.
 
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