Monkadelicd
May 8th, 2011, 02:37 PM
I am fairly inexperienced with Linux. I'm good with windows and PCs in general.
I've been wanting to setup a Linux environment for teaching myself some programming so I downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 to install on my main Windows desktop.
I have two internal HDDs and an external HDD. Each of the internals is 160GB and the external is 1TB.
I have Windows on the drive in SATA0. I split the drive in SATA1 into 3 partitions.
I Windows Disk Management to shrink the NTFS partition to 100GB for storage.
I used gParted to create a 2GB swap partition
the rest is a ext4 partition
So sda1 is NTFS, sdb1 is swap, sdb2 is ext4, and sdb3 is NTFS, and sdc1 is NTFS
I mounted sdb2 as root and installed Ubuntu there. I chose the manual option for the installation as the install alongside Windows option only showed my external HDD (sdc).
I wasn't sure where to place the boot loader so I tried to overwrite the Windows boot loader on sda but that failed with an error about no file system available or compatible. I figured Grub2 doesn't work on NTFS
I did some reading and to my understanding Grub2 is to be installed on the partition with Ubuntu. I tried the installation again and selected sdb2 as the location for the boot loader.
The installation finished with no errors and instructed me to restart. I did this and the PC booted straight into Windows without ever displaying a boot loader screen, Windows or Grub2.
How can I get the Grub2 screen to show up? Did I put it in the wrong place?
Thanks ahead for any help offered.
I've been wanting to setup a Linux environment for teaching myself some programming so I downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 to install on my main Windows desktop.
I have two internal HDDs and an external HDD. Each of the internals is 160GB and the external is 1TB.
I have Windows on the drive in SATA0. I split the drive in SATA1 into 3 partitions.
I Windows Disk Management to shrink the NTFS partition to 100GB for storage.
I used gParted to create a 2GB swap partition
the rest is a ext4 partition
So sda1 is NTFS, sdb1 is swap, sdb2 is ext4, and sdb3 is NTFS, and sdc1 is NTFS
I mounted sdb2 as root and installed Ubuntu there. I chose the manual option for the installation as the install alongside Windows option only showed my external HDD (sdc).
I wasn't sure where to place the boot loader so I tried to overwrite the Windows boot loader on sda but that failed with an error about no file system available or compatible. I figured Grub2 doesn't work on NTFS
I did some reading and to my understanding Grub2 is to be installed on the partition with Ubuntu. I tried the installation again and selected sdb2 as the location for the boot loader.
The installation finished with no errors and instructed me to restart. I did this and the PC booted straight into Windows without ever displaying a boot loader screen, Windows or Grub2.
How can I get the Grub2 screen to show up? Did I put it in the wrong place?
Thanks ahead for any help offered.