Problem detecting sata drive

[phuchungbhutia]

I have two drives one is sata and another pata and . . I have win xp in sata and i installed ubuntu in the other today . . But i couldnt see ubuntu detect sata drive even while installing and so there is no bootloader either . . One more thing is that i didnt partition swap so could that be any problem but i dont think so . . As it didnt show any other drive i dont think so . . Plus it takes time to start up the ubuntu os . . Now i have to change boot drive priority everytime i need to change the os i want to use . . and if swap does help . . How do i install bootloader plus create swap . .

[presence1960]

Boot into Ubuntu or from the Ubuntu live CD. When the desktop loads download the Boot Info Script 0.32 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/) to the desktop. Once downloaded to desktop open a terminal and run this command
sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh
This will create a RESULTS.txt file on the desktop. Paste the entire contents of that file back here. Once pasted here, highlight all text pasted and click the # sign on the toolbar to place code tags around the text. This info will show us your setup & boot info.