toomuchjustin
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My problem is quite similar to andy-min's in an earlier thread, but I figured I'd start my own so that our cases don't get mixed up. I'm a complete linux beginner (that's why I'm installing it, so I can learn it), so please forgive me. Also I don't know much about bootloading except what I've gathered from google searches and the links in the sticky in this forum.
I just installed ubuntu 8.10 (64-bit) to a second SATA internal hard drive. My first SATA disk has Vista Home Premium 64-bit. Here's a run-down of pretty much everything I've done so far:
1) Physically install new hd (obviously)
2) Install ubuntu. Here's where I might have made my first mistake. During install, I had to pick the partition to which to install grub. I chose dev/sdb, i.e. the second SATA drive. But I'm thinking that maybe I should have chosen dev/sdb1, i.e. the first partition where the ubuntu's root directory is located?
3) Booted into Vista, used EasyBCD to add an entry for Linux. I chose Drive 0, Partition 1 (for some reason, Vista sees the new drive as drive 0 and its own boot drive as drive 1. not sure why). Did not check "GRUB is not installed to the bootsector."
4) Rebooted and selected ubuntu at the boot menu. I received a message ("insert system disk" or something like that).
5) Rebooted into Vista. Deleted the old entry. Did the same as (3), except this time I checked the "GRUB is not installed" box.
6) Rebooted and selected ubuntu at the boot menu. Now it boots into the grub prompt.
So that's where I am. I can boot into ubuntu, but only if I change the hard disk boot order in the bios (in fact, I'm writing this from ubuntu now). I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have.
Sorry again about the (maybe) redundant thread.
I just installed ubuntu 8.10 (64-bit) to a second SATA internal hard drive. My first SATA disk has Vista Home Premium 64-bit. Here's a run-down of pretty much everything I've done so far:
1) Physically install new hd (obviously)
2) Install ubuntu. Here's where I might have made my first mistake. During install, I had to pick the partition to which to install grub. I chose dev/sdb, i.e. the second SATA drive. But I'm thinking that maybe I should have chosen dev/sdb1, i.e. the first partition where the ubuntu's root directory is located?
3) Booted into Vista, used EasyBCD to add an entry for Linux. I chose Drive 0, Partition 1 (for some reason, Vista sees the new drive as drive 0 and its own boot drive as drive 1. not sure why). Did not check "GRUB is not installed to the bootsector."
4) Rebooted and selected ubuntu at the boot menu. I received a message ("insert system disk" or something like that).
5) Rebooted into Vista. Deleted the old entry. Did the same as (3), except this time I checked the "GRUB is not installed" box.
6) Rebooted and selected ubuntu at the boot menu. Now it boots into the grub prompt.
So that's where I am. I can boot into ubuntu, but only if I change the hard disk boot order in the bios (in fact, I'm writing this from ubuntu now). I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have.
Sorry again about the (maybe) redundant thread.