joerdie
May 20th, 2009, 12:51 AM
Hello all. I recently decided to dual boot my xp machine with ubuntu. Have been dual booting my mac for some time now and really love the way it all worked out.
Installed 9.04 on its own partition yesterday and everything seems to running well. It was rather easy as I was nuking an old drive and starting with both OS's from scratch.
The only trouble that I am having is with the startup itself. Pre-OS I am asked what OS I want to boot in what looks like bios. There is one windows coice at the bottom and 5 or so Ubuntu choices. After 10 sec. or so, Ubuntu boots automatically if I don't choose anything else.
My question is, is there a boot loading program as on the mac that looks nice and lets me choose between the two OS's that I want to boot from? In other words, I would like two choices, Unbuntu or XP, without all of the other ways to boot Ubuntu. Also I would like the choice screen to be something... pleasant.
Installed 9.04 on its own partition yesterday and everything seems to running well. It was rather easy as I was nuking an old drive and starting with both OS's from scratch.
The only trouble that I am having is with the startup itself. Pre-OS I am asked what OS I want to boot in what looks like bios. There is one windows coice at the bottom and 5 or so Ubuntu choices. After 10 sec. or so, Ubuntu boots automatically if I don't choose anything else.
My question is, is there a boot loading program as on the mac that looks nice and lets me choose between the two OS's that I want to boot from? In other words, I would like two choices, Unbuntu or XP, without all of the other ways to boot Ubuntu. Also I would like the choice screen to be something... pleasant.