Doomspark
September 4th, 2010, 02:53 AM
My computer (home-built) has 3 hard drives in it. These are separate drives, not partitions. All are SATA.
500 gig - Windows 7
320 G - Ubuntu - sort of. Was empty.
120 G - currently empty.
When I installed Ubuntu, I told it to install on the 320G drive and use the entire disk. It wanted to install "side by side" on the same drive that has my Windows 7 install. The install appeared to proceed normally, and I remember seeing a message go by that said it was doing something with grub.
On reboot, my system goes directly into Windows and doesn't give me any sort of option to launch Ubuntu instead. Windows no longer sees the 320 G drive, which makes me think that the install is there and what I have is some odd flavor of boot issue.
I'm VERY much a Linux / Ubuntu noob, so any advice on how to make this dual boot happen is muchly appreciated.
500 gig - Windows 7
320 G - Ubuntu - sort of. Was empty.
120 G - currently empty.
When I installed Ubuntu, I told it to install on the 320G drive and use the entire disk. It wanted to install "side by side" on the same drive that has my Windows 7 install. The install appeared to proceed normally, and I remember seeing a message go by that said it was doing something with grub.
On reboot, my system goes directly into Windows and doesn't give me any sort of option to launch Ubuntu instead. Windows no longer sees the 320 G drive, which makes me think that the install is there and what I have is some odd flavor of boot issue.
I'm VERY much a Linux / Ubuntu noob, so any advice on how to make this dual boot happen is muchly appreciated.