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Thread: Ubuntu 9.04 installs, but boots into XP without options.. how do I boot into Ubuntu?

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    Question Ubuntu 9.04 installs, but boots into XP without options.. how do I boot into Ubuntu?

    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
    Last edited by nurvzy; May 26th, 2009 at 09:26 AM.

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    Re: Ubuntu 9.04 installs, but boots into XP without options.. how do I boot into Ubun

    So I ran the little tutorial I found at:
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows

    sudo grub
    find /boot/grub/stage1
    ---> (hd1,4)
    root (hd1,4)
    setup (hd0)
    quit
    sudo reboot

    I didn't get any errors, grub said it was all success. But still no different result, after reboot it goes right back into XP -- without option. =(

    Ugh *sad panda face*

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    Re: Ubuntu 9.04 installs, but boots into XP without options.. how do I boot into Ubun

    Derp. After reading more about grub, I realized I need to run setup (hd1) instead of setup (hd0). All is good in the world. Ubuntu dual boots with XP. Hurray!

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    Re: Ubuntu 9.04 installs, but boots into XP without options.. how do I boot into Ubun

    Had the same issue. I figured out i just need to take time and read those ql ubuntu tuts. Big thx to creators.
    Last edited by mindbust; May 26th, 2009 at 01:22 PM.

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