Again thanks much for your help oldfred. Weird thing is it says I have weird stuff going on with boot loaders... But I distinctly remember the bubble being ticked to install the boot loader on (0,0) (default setting) the last time I installed karmic. Do you think I should procure a 3rd party boot loader like Acronis's or I'm sure their are others as well.
*note the hard drives I had 3 HDD connected. 1: 500GB that I wanted the dual boot install on, 1: 320GB storage, and 1: 1TB storage. I know it would not allow me to access the 320 GB. It needed a password but I'm on a live CD, so their is no sudo password, so no access. Wish I knew how to disable that.
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub1.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu karmic (development
branch)
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
sdc2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdc5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x11cdffbd
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 964,719,314 964,719,252 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 964,719,315 976,768,064 12,048,750 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 964,719,378 976,768,064 12,048,687 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x67a208da
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb2 * 16,065 625,137,344 625,121,280 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 16,128 625,137,344 625,121,217 7 HPFS/NTFS
Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x262397ce
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdc2 * 16,065 1,953,520,064 1,953,504,000 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 16,128 1,953,520,064 1,953,503,937 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="1489435d-a1c3-4d03-8b1b-cf8f8f3d0cc2" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="16AFB6C6AA7B0A30" LABEL="Hades" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="62FAC67EFAC64E4B" LABEL="Titans" TYPE="ntfs"
=============================== "mount" output: ===============================
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ubuntu/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ubuntu)
=========================== sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
load_env
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/white
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-11-generic" {
recordfail=1
save_env recordfail
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-11-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
save_env recordfail
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ ${timeout} != -1 ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
=============================== sda1/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=2e1844b1-9fb8-43ea-a64e-707a67a63d58 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1489435d-a1c3-4d03-8b1b-cf8f8f3d0cc2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sda1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
.0GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
.0GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic
.0GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic
.0GB: initrd.img
.0GB: vmlinuz
=========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =======================
Unknown MBR on /dev/sdc
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00000010 8b 4e 14 83 f9 0e 75 08 8d 5e 07 43 02 07 e2 fb |.N....u..^.C....|
00000020 8c 56 0c 8c 56 0e 75 69 8a 56 10 84 d2 79 62 e8 |.V..V.ui.V...yb.|
00000030 f6 00 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 6f 3b 5e 5c 75 6a d1 e9 |....U..ro;^\uj..|
00000040 73 66 b4 42 c6 46 02 01 eb 66 89 b6 f6 fe 8a 44 |sf.B.F...f.....D|
00000050 04 84 c0 74 0f 3c 05 74 0b 3c 0f 74 07 8a 14 80 |...t.<.t.<.t....|
00000060 e2 80 75 cb 83 c6 10 06 c4 5c 08 89 5e 08 8c 46 |..u......\..^..F|
00000070 0a 07 fe 8e f9 fe 75 d2 b0 31 c6 46 d7 50 88 46 |......u..1.F.P.F|
00000080 d4 be 6a 07 ac 84 c0 74 08 b4 0e b3 07 cd 10 eb |..j....t........|
00000090 f3 e8 81 00 88 46 11 be ae 07 3c 05 75 c6 cd 16 |.....F....<.u...|
000000a0 33 d2 89 56 08 89 56 0a e8 7d 00 72 1b b8 01 02 |3..V..V..}.r....|
000000b0 bf 05 00 8b dc 56 50 50 32 e4 cd 13 58 8b f5 cd |.....VPP2...X...|
000000c0 13 58 5e 73 03 4f 75 eb b0 32 72 b2 40 8a 66 11 |.X^s.Ou..2r.@.f.|
000000d0 9e 7b 04 c6 47 02 0e 72 35 75 0c 88 57 40 c4 4e |.{..G..r5u..W@.N|
000000e0 08 89 4f 1c 8c 47 1e 79 06 8a 4e 12 88 4f 25 80 |..O..G.y..N..O%.|
000000f0 c7 02 81 7f fe 55 aa 75 85 81 7f fa cd 19 75 09 |.....U.u......u.|
00000100 c6 47 fa e9 c7 47 fb 94 88 e8 1c 00 ff e4 74 ce |.G...G........t.|
00000110 88 57 24 eb c9 5d 33 c0 8e d8 8e c0 8e d0 bc 00 |.W$..]3.........|
00000120 7c 55 bd a2 07 fc fb c3 b4 08 52 06 cd 13 07 72 ||U........R....r|
00000130 33 33 db 8a de 8b 46 0a 33 d2 83 e1 3f f7 f1 91 |33....F.3...?...|
00000140 97 8b 46 08 f7 f7 42 87 ca 3b da 72 17 43 f7 f3 |..F...B..;.r.C..|
00000150 8a f2 86 c5 d1 e8 d1 e8 0a c8 d0 cc d0 cc 0a f4 |................|
00000160 84 e4 74 02 b4 41 5b 8a d3 c3 0d 0a 4d 42 52 20 |..t..A[.....MBR |
00000170 45 72 72 6f 72 20 00 0d 0a 00 72 65 73 73 20 61 |Error ....ress a|
00000180 6e 79 20 6b 65 79 20 74 6f 20 62 6f 6f 74 20 66 |ny key to boot f|
00000190 72 6f 6d 20 66 6c 6f 70 70 79 2e 2e 2e 00 00 00 |rom floppy......|
000001a0 00 00 10 00 01 00 00 7c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.......|........|
000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ce 97 23 26 00 00 00 00 |..........#&....|
000001c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 |................|
000001d0 01 01 05 fe ff ff c1 3e 00 00 00 1b 70 74 00 00 |.......>....pt..|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
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