mihlub
February 4th, 2009, 05:23 AM
in the last several days i've been stuckedfailed/unsuccessfully in trying to dual boot windows xp, vista, or windows 7 beta with ububuntu. here's what i did.
1. boot with live dvd, use partition tool to split the small 32gb ssd drive into two primary partions 16gb each.
2. install any of the windows mentioned above on partition 1.
3. install ubuntu 8.10 desktop on partition 2. it goes ok. the last few screens of
the installation process detects the existing ofwindows os and was intalling grub accordingly. it then ejected the live intstallation dvd and proceed to restart the system.
the problem is when the system reboot. it automatically load windows that was insrall on partition 1. it gives no grub menu option to boot any other thing as would be expected on a fully functional grub and dual-boot setup of this type.
i have tried to use the installation cd to use the rescue option without any success.
please help and thanks.
1. boot with live dvd, use partition tool to split the small 32gb ssd drive into two primary partions 16gb each.
2. install any of the windows mentioned above on partition 1.
3. install ubuntu 8.10 desktop on partition 2. it goes ok. the last few screens of
the installation process detects the existing ofwindows os and was intalling grub accordingly. it then ejected the live intstallation dvd and proceed to restart the system.
the problem is when the system reboot. it automatically load windows that was insrall on partition 1. it gives no grub menu option to boot any other thing as would be expected on a fully functional grub and dual-boot setup of this type.
i have tried to use the installation cd to use the rescue option without any success.
please help and thanks.