No boot option

[TimEnid]

I have windows 7 installed to one hd, and installed Ubuntu to another internal. The install went well, and when it was done, it said it had to restart. But upon restarting, i wasnt give the option to boot ubuntu. It just keeps loading windows. I went back to my bios and chose to boot from both hd's, but nothing is happening. With the hd with ubuntu on it, it wont load up. Any help? I didnt get any error messages during the install.

[lindsay7]

Lets see that you system looks like.

type the following into the terminal sudo fdisk -l (that is the lower case letter L) and post the results here.

[TimEnid]

Lets see that you system looks like.

type the following into the terminal sudo fdisk -l (that is the lower case letter L) and post the results here.

sorry, but i cant type anything in the terminal, because ubuntu wont load up. i just installed it a little while ago. only thing i am able to load is windows 7.

[lindsay7]

Try this,

http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/how-to-recover-grub2-linux.html

tell us what happens

[TimEnid]

Try this,

http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/how-to-recover-grub2-linux.html

tell us what happens

thanks. i will try this out.

[TimEnid]

that didnt work. i tried installing the grub to both the ubuntu hd and the w7 hd. nothing. after it restarts, my monitor is not detected and i have to restart it all over again

[lindsay7]

start up with the ubuntu install disk and post the results of

sudo fdisk -l

[TimEnid]

start up with the ubuntu install disk and post the results of

sudo fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd8f3c04b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 121602 976759808 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x19ad14d7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 60802 488383488 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009f891

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 58336 468581376 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 58336 60802 19803137 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 58336 60802 19803136 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sde: 16.4 GB, 16372989952 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1990 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00819419

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 1991 15985152 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdf: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sdf2 * 8 4430 35527747+ 42 SFS
/dev/sdf3 4431 4863 3477501 42 SFS

[Darkness Des]

I have no idea where you're going with this, but if you want to add Ubuntu as an option to the Windows 7 Bootloader, go to the link below and download the latest build. You have to sign up for this.
http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=642
When making a new boot entry, make sure you select GRUB2 and it will auto detect where it is on your hard drive and add Ubuntu to your boot menu. I then select adding a shorter timeout on GRUB so that it goes straight to Ubuntu instead of adding another wait.

[TimEnid]

I have no idea where you're going with this, but if you want to add Ubuntu as an option to the Windows 7 Bootloader, go to the link below and download the latest build. You have to sign up for this.
http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=642
When making a new boot entry, make sure you select GRUB2 and it will auto detect where it is on your hard drive and add Ubuntu to your boot menu. I then select adding a shorter timeout on GRUB so that it goes straight to Ubuntu instead of adding another wait.

This worked. thanks a lot. How do you add the shorter timeout?