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blitzkriegg9x
May 10th, 2011, 11:42 AM
I am having trouble booting ubuntu 11.04 from my external hard drive, i did a custom instal using the 11.04 CD.

i made 4 partitions
/dev/sda1 ext2 /boot 1024mb (1gb)
/dev/sda5 swap 4096mb (4gb)
/dev/sda6 ext4 / 10240mb (10gb)
/dev/sda7 ext4 /home 204800mb (200gb)

and i put grub on the one what was mounted to /boot.



but my problem is when i restart my computer it just starts up windows.

my external hard drive is on, i have it set to boot from removable storage or something like ehtat first. i forget what i just know that booting from my internal hard drive is set to last so it should boot from the external.

please help.

blitzkriegg9x
May 10th, 2011, 12:10 PM
can someone please help? :[

mörgæs
May 10th, 2011, 12:15 PM
There is plenty of help in your other threads.

LostFarmer
May 10th, 2011, 02:55 PM
Do not have time to say much but you need to have grub installed into the external hdd's MBR. Or have MS's/generic MBR and the /boot partition marked Active/bootable. OR if MS is installed on the internal hdd you can use 'grub4dos' or 'eacybcd' from Windows boot loader.