smashdoez
December 6th, 2008, 10:03 AM
(I've searched, but didn't find anything that works for my case)
I have two hard drives, one with Vista and the other for Linux.
Wanting to keep Windows and Linux completely separate, I disconnected my Vista drive during the Ubuntu 8.10 x64 installation. I installed 8.10 on hd0,0 (hd1,0 with the Vista drive attached).
The problem I have is since I didn't create a separate NTFS partition for GRUB, EasyBCD cannot identify my 8.10 installation and therefore will not boot.
My Windows boot data resides on a 200mb partition on Hd0,0 and that is where EasyBCD is looking for the menu.lst
To further complicate matters, the HD I installed Ubuntu on was originally partitioned as GPT. I thought I had re-formatted and re-converted back to MBR, but as it turns out, it's still GPT. When the EasyBCD menu.lst uses the:
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /boot/grub/menu.lst
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
It returns unrecognised partition table for drive 80 / error 17:
So how do I make 8.10 bootable? Can I create a NTFS partition and copy / install the GRUB loader to that partition? If so, how? Or am I looking at a fresh format?
Any tips, ideas much appreciated.
I have two hard drives, one with Vista and the other for Linux.
Wanting to keep Windows and Linux completely separate, I disconnected my Vista drive during the Ubuntu 8.10 x64 installation. I installed 8.10 on hd0,0 (hd1,0 with the Vista drive attached).
The problem I have is since I didn't create a separate NTFS partition for GRUB, EasyBCD cannot identify my 8.10 installation and therefore will not boot.
My Windows boot data resides on a 200mb partition on Hd0,0 and that is where EasyBCD is looking for the menu.lst
To further complicate matters, the HD I installed Ubuntu on was originally partitioned as GPT. I thought I had re-formatted and re-converted back to MBR, but as it turns out, it's still GPT. When the EasyBCD menu.lst uses the:
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /boot/grub/menu.lst
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
It returns unrecognised partition table for drive 80 / error 17:
So how do I make 8.10 bootable? Can I create a NTFS partition and copy / install the GRUB loader to that partition? If so, how? Or am I looking at a fresh format?
Any tips, ideas much appreciated.