Loading UBUNTU on 2nd New hard drive?

[guntherfurlong]

Recently purchased a second Western Digital Hard drive 160Gb. I'm running Win XP on my main hard drive.

I managed to install Ubuntu 7.04 on the new second drive but I am unable to get it to find a proper article that will give me the menu to dual boot btw the two..

Sorry if this has been posted before.. but I'm very new to Linux and wish to explore it...

Thank u in advance..

[cdtech]

Within Ubuntu, bring up a terminal and type:
sudo grub

This will give you the grub shell >

To install the GRUB bootloader on the primary disk, type:
setup (hd0)

This will install the GRUB bootloader code within the MBR of the primary drive.

Type quit to exit the GRUB shell.

When you reboot you will be presented the GRUB bootloader.

[guntherfurlong]

Thanksfor your prompt reply. I can't get ubunto to load up in the first place. Should I try loading it again via the Ubuntu CD and install GRUB from there?

[animefan82]

yes

[guntherfurlong]

Loaded up the Ubuntu Live CD

Loaded Grub

Got the error message ...

grub> setup(hd0)

Error 27: Unrecognized command

grub>

[cdtech]

Loaded up the Ubuntu Live CD

Loaded Grub

Got the error message ...

grub> setup(hd0)

Error 27: Unrecognized command

grub>

You should have a space between "setup (hd0)"

[guntherfurlong]

setup (hd0) gets me this... (a space is there)

Error 12: Invalid device requested

[cdtech]

what do you get with:
sudo fdisk -l

[guntherfurlong]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 18719 150360336 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18720 19452 5887822+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 18720 19452 5887791 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 7649 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 7650 19456 94839727+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 7650 13386 46082421 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 13387 19456 48757243+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 7295 58597056 7 HPFS/NTFS

[cdtech]

OK

Boot into the live Ubuntu cd.

When you get to the desktop open a terminal and enter.

sudo grub

This will get you a "grub>" prompt (i.e. the grub shell). At grub>. enter these commands

grub >find /boot/grub/stage1

Whatever was returned for the find command use it in the next step (you are still at grub>.

grub >root (hd?,?)

Again use the value from the find command i.e. if find returned (hd0,1) then you would enter root (hd0,1)

Next enter the command to install grub to the mbr

grub >setup (hd0)

Then exit the grub shell

grub> quit

I just think the root was not set properly.
The hd0 is the proper device though....