MagicalDean
October 17th, 2010, 10:50 AM
Hello everyone,
Firstly, apologies for creating a thread entirely to solve my problems, but I've searched everywhere to no avail.
I have a laptop with two HDs, XP on one, and freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10 on the other. I want to avoid installing GRUB or similar, as most of the time I just use windows. I therefore decided to put GRUB on a USB, an option the alternate CD gave me.
For some reason, when I boot with the GRUB USB, nothing happens and my laptop boots normally into windows. I managed to get Ubuntu running off a USB stick, and the GRUB USB contains the files IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM and MSDOS.SYS, so I assume GRUB installed correctly.
Does anyone know what I need to do to get this to work?
Firstly, apologies for creating a thread entirely to solve my problems, but I've searched everywhere to no avail.
I have a laptop with two HDs, XP on one, and freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10 on the other. I want to avoid installing GRUB or similar, as most of the time I just use windows. I therefore decided to put GRUB on a USB, an option the alternate CD gave me.
For some reason, when I boot with the GRUB USB, nothing happens and my laptop boots normally into windows. I managed to get Ubuntu running off a USB stick, and the GRUB USB contains the files IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM and MSDOS.SYS, so I assume GRUB installed correctly.
Does anyone know what I need to do to get this to work?