skozzy
June 13th, 2009, 09:43 AM
I have several HDDs in my computer, I selected a 1 TB drive as the one I wanted Ubuntu installed to (shows as the 3rd drive in BIOS), that drive has Windows 7 installed, so I was expecting after installing Ubuntu 9.04 to see a Grub menu to select either Windows 7 or Ubuntu.
But, I don't get a grub menu, it just loads Windows 7.
This is my 2nd attempt to install Ubuntu and the 1st attempt said there was a Fatal Error installing Grub and exited with no further messages.
The 1st HDD in BIOS is my 64gig SSD which has Windows Vista, being only 64gig there isn't enough space to install Ubuntu, so I changed the bios boot order to select this 1TB drive, and this is where I believe my problem is.
During the install for Ubuntu the partition manager wanted to install over the top of my Vista drive (the 64gig SSD), I selected manual install, selected the correct drive where I wanted Ubutu install, made the two partitions (ext3 and swap) in the free space on the drive, selected the ext3 mount point as /
Even though I changed the order of drives in bios for the boot drive the Ubuntu partition manager doesn't see the drives in that order, it has it's own order.
So what might have happened to the installing of Grub, how can I find which drive it may have been installed to, or how can I re-install it to the drive I choose.
But, I don't get a grub menu, it just loads Windows 7.
This is my 2nd attempt to install Ubuntu and the 1st attempt said there was a Fatal Error installing Grub and exited with no further messages.
The 1st HDD in BIOS is my 64gig SSD which has Windows Vista, being only 64gig there isn't enough space to install Ubuntu, so I changed the bios boot order to select this 1TB drive, and this is where I believe my problem is.
During the install for Ubuntu the partition manager wanted to install over the top of my Vista drive (the 64gig SSD), I selected manual install, selected the correct drive where I wanted Ubutu install, made the two partitions (ext3 and swap) in the free space on the drive, selected the ext3 mount point as /
Even though I changed the order of drives in bios for the boot drive the Ubuntu partition manager doesn't see the drives in that order, it has it's own order.
So what might have happened to the installing of Grub, how can I find which drive it may have been installed to, or how can I re-install it to the drive I choose.