After dual boot unable to load grub

[devosion]

I have used the following two guides in order to dual-boot Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows 7:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1035999

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

Currently im stuck with Windows 7 not recognizing grub and it booting up without recognizing any other installed OS'. I have reinstalled grub on via both guides, and I have ensured the menu.lst file is properly setup to accompany both drives (sda for Windows and sdb for Linux). I am currently attempting to get Windows 7 to recognize grub via the second how to, but it seems this solution only seems to allow the Windows 7 bootloader to recognize grub and not overwrite it. I'd like to use grub as my bootloader and not the Windows 7 bootloader. If it helps I have grub has recognized its installation on my linux partition as (hd0,1) and the windows partition is on (hd0,0).

[damis648]

The most common error here is likely that when running

grub> setup (hdx)
you may have accidentally used

grub> setup (hdx,y)
Make sure to install to the drive, not the partition.

[devosion]

I went ahead and inputted all the commands for setuping grub and overwriting the bootloader with that in mind, then restarted. Windows 7 again was the only thing that loaded. Any other ideas?

[devosion]

Here is a copy of my fdisk -l if it helps:


Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9726 78121984 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8f4f8f4f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 852 19335 148472730 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 19336 19457 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[devosion]

This was taking a longer amount of time than I expected to resolve so I just went ahead and reinstalled ubuntu on root, and that fixed the problem.