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al-qarni
June 8th, 2011, 06:18 PM
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a separate partition, with Grub being in it own partition. When I start the PC only windows Xp is available. So how do I get grub or Ubuntu load with windows xp boot loader?

I tried with Live cd, the sudo grub but then it says command not found. I think its because Ubuntu 11.04 uses grub 2. Is there anyway I can fix this?

Thank you

oldfred
June 8th, 2011, 06:22 PM
The windows boot loader does not boot Ubuntu. You really need to use grub2's boot loader as it gives a choice of what to boot. There are some very complicated work arounds but I do not know them well enough and they are not easy to implement.

So we can see what is installed where:
Boot Info Script courtesy of forum members meierfra & Gert Hulselmans
Page with instructions and download:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
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How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader (Updated for Ubuntu 9.10)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708
Reinstall grub2 - Short version & full chroot version
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB%202