I'm trying to install Ubuntu 9.04. I have a relatively newish computer Dell Intel Pentium 4 3.2GH, 1GB Ram, NVidia 6800, with two harddrives.
HD1(110GB): Windows XP Partition (55GB) || NTFS (55GB)
HD2(300GB): NTFS (297GB) || Unpartitioned(3GB)
The second hard drive I installed myself and when run the Ubuntu install it wants to install on the HD2, not the partition I made for it on HD1. So I go into the advanced partition knowing just enough to be extremely dangerous apparently.
I find the free partition on HD1 and re-format 'ext3' and mount '/' (hoping that's the right thing to do). Then I make the Unpartitioned 3GB on HD2 the 'swap disk'. I think I'm happy with what I've done and click install.
It runs, says its complete, reboots, asks me to remove the CD... and now when I reboot it just goes right into XP no options, no nothing, just bam windows. I look at windows explorer and sure enough windows can't see the partition I made for Ubuntu (which I think is a good sign).
Is there something I can do to the boot.ini (or something) to tell it to give me the option to boot from the new ext3 partition drive?
Did I screw up the install? The end result I would like a dual bootable system of XP/Ubuntu. Unfortuantely, I'm pretty green with Linux.
Please, any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Nick
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