Loading UBUNTU on 2nd New hard drive?

[guntherfurlong]

Ok.. that worked the charm. Will test it out and get back to ya.. thanks alot again

[cdtech]

Yu welcome.

Good luck.

You should also see the other selectable OS's now as well in the GRUB menu.

[guntherfurlong]

Hmmm.. unfortunately it didn't work... the WinXp kept booting again... the grub interface didn't even load up...

[cdtech]

Hmmm.. unfortunately it didn't work... the WinXp kept booting again... the grub interface didn't even load up...

Then it's your boot order within your bios setup. Booting the secondary drive as default.

[guntherfurlong]

Got it sorted out.. My BIOS was a problem.. finally got the right drive to load..and the GRUB came on... thanks...

[guntherfurlong]

Hello friend..

A friend gave me UBUNTU 8.04 to install instead.... but following the steps as mentioned above in the thread, for some reason I cannot get the Grub to load...

Once booted up... it says...

Grub loading stage1.5
Grub Loading, please wait
Error 15

My fdisk -l reveals (at the Ubuntu LIVE terminal)


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd6a9bb1

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
Disk identifier: 0xa1c20ebc

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


Can u help me... tried the following
sudo grub
grub >find /boot/grub/stage1

but got this error instead "Error 27: Unrecognized command"

[cdtech]

There is no stage 1 looking at your fdisk return (no MBR on sda).

It looks as though your GRUB bootloader was not installed during the setup. Try this from the CD:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Then reboot and see if that corrects the problem.