unable to figure out GRUB

[Mathalamus]

hello everyone.

i ahve a problem understanding Grub. i installed Ubuntu 9.10 into my D drive, no subfolders. and for reasons that elude me completely, i have to manually tell ubuntu where to boot from. and i dont know how. my D drive is HD1 (my windows root is HD0)


can anyone tell a low intelligence person how to boot it successfully?

oh by the way i installed it using Wubi.

[Mathalamus]

no one seems willing to help me?

[stlsaint]

Please explain the entire process of how your partitions are setup right now and are you using multiple hdd?

[Mathalamus]

Please explain the entire process of how your partitions are setup right now and are you using multiple hdd?

one partition per hard drive, the linux one is sort of like a virtual hard drive. yes im using 2 hard drives.

[Megafag]

the linux one is sort of like a virtual hard drive.

Please elaborate on this.

[Mathalamus]

Please elaborate on this.

i had Wubi to install Linux. it made its own hard drive file, it is 30 gigabytes large and i dont know what the file system of that is.