WhiskeyAlpha
Member
Hi guys,
I've trawled through the posts here and unfortunately not been able to figure out what the problem is with my setup so I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers.
Basically, I have Vista x64 business installed on a 500GB SATA drive, which is partioned into 2 equal sized chunks. Vista is installed on the first partition.
I also have another 250GB drive on which I wanted to install Ubuntu. So, I followed the guide here on dual booting Ubuntu, to the letter.
I made a roughly 100GB, primary ext3 partition, with a "/" mount point, along with a 4GB swap file (I formatted the rest of the disk as NTFS for windows backup)
The drive was "sda" so installed grub on "/dev/sda1" (the 100GB ext partition was #1).
I rebooted into Vista added a linux entry, as per the guide and pointed it towards the linux partition and it doesn't work. On the Vista boot screen, when I select the option I added for Ubuntu a screen flashes up for a split second (it mentions something about bootsect IIRC) before returning to the VIsta boot screen again.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
I've trawled through the posts here and unfortunately not been able to figure out what the problem is with my setup so I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers.
Basically, I have Vista x64 business installed on a 500GB SATA drive, which is partioned into 2 equal sized chunks. Vista is installed on the first partition.
I also have another 250GB drive on which I wanted to install Ubuntu. So, I followed the guide here on dual booting Ubuntu, to the letter.
I made a roughly 100GB, primary ext3 partition, with a "/" mount point, along with a 4GB swap file (I formatted the rest of the disk as NTFS for windows backup)
The drive was "sda" so installed grub on "/dev/sda1" (the 100GB ext partition was #1).
I rebooted into Vista added a linux entry, as per the guide and pointed it towards the linux partition and it doesn't work. On the Vista boot screen, when I select the option I added for Ubuntu a screen flashes up for a split second (it mentions something about bootsect IIRC) before returning to the VIsta boot screen again.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?