shiningpathb4me
December 10th, 2008, 04:10 AM
I'm totally new to Ubuntu but thought I knew everything I needed to know about grub from experience with Fedora Core and Mandriva. I've spent days trying to boot XP and out of frustration tried installing grub on sda instead of sdb (hd1) where it's always been - and I demolished my XP and couldn't recover it. :(
I reinstalled XP on /dev/sda and partitioned sdb for ubuntu, installed again.
Same problem
To boot windows all I have to do is switch the boot order in the bios. When I put my slave first in the order, I get grub and can boot ubuntu. Sooooo
Right now my bios is functioning as my boot loader and this sucks!
I have checked MD5 checksums and burned CD's until I got one that tested perfectly.
I noticed that most folks around here don't use:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
so I edited my grub at boot time to add those map commands and still no luck.
This was really simple in Fedora AFTER figuring it out. Same darn program in Ubuntu and it doesn't work. Every other linux I've run I did it the same way, grub on sdb so it doesn't touch mbr of XP.
Maybe the map command I use is being overridden by something else?
TIA
P.S. It appears Ubuntu likes to hide essential system tools from the user. The network configuration GUI's don't seem to do much of anything. I still can't manually configure an ethernet adapter. I save it, reboot, and it goes right back to DHCP again. There seems to be a lot of things missing from my system administration menu. What's the point of having a GUI sound config utility that can't run the alsa-config/install w/e stuff?
:lolflag:
I reinstalled XP on /dev/sda and partitioned sdb for ubuntu, installed again.
Same problem
To boot windows all I have to do is switch the boot order in the bios. When I put my slave first in the order, I get grub and can boot ubuntu. Sooooo
Right now my bios is functioning as my boot loader and this sucks!
I have checked MD5 checksums and burned CD's until I got one that tested perfectly.
I noticed that most folks around here don't use:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
so I edited my grub at boot time to add those map commands and still no luck.
This was really simple in Fedora AFTER figuring it out. Same darn program in Ubuntu and it doesn't work. Every other linux I've run I did it the same way, grub on sdb so it doesn't touch mbr of XP.
Maybe the map command I use is being overridden by something else?
TIA
P.S. It appears Ubuntu likes to hide essential system tools from the user. The network configuration GUI's don't seem to do much of anything. I still can't manually configure an ethernet adapter. I save it, reboot, and it goes right back to DHCP again. There seems to be a lot of things missing from my system administration menu. What's the point of having a GUI sound config utility that can't run the alsa-config/install w/e stuff?
:lolflag: