broccoflowers
October 5th, 2018, 11:12 PM
Hi, can you help?
I have win server 2016 on one hard drive and it uses legacy bios mbr. For some reason I couldn't get windows to install with UEFI a couple years back and never thought about it again---til now.
I added a brand new SSD for ubuntu. When I tried to install Ubuntu using the install gui, it did not detect any other OS. So, I stopped, verified that safeboot and such were disabled in the bios, but still no other OS was detected during ubuntu install. I then pulled out my windows hard drive and set it on the desk (was getting nervous about messing it up (and yes I have a seperate bootable clone of my windows boot drive)). I installed ubuntu using the "something else" option. I made a 300 MB partition and labeled it for grub bios. I made the rest of the disk a primary partition for ubuntu. Installed it, and all is well. However, when I put back in my windows boot drive, to no suprise grub does not find it when I boot with shift held down. But I can use the bios to select the windows disk and it will boot. However, that requires me physically at the computer--and I work on this computer remotely 90% fo the time, and I need to switch sides roughly daily.
I would like grub to recognize my windows boot drive. Then I would have the option to tell grub to reboot into windows from the command line. This way I could do this all remotely--which is how I usually use this workstation.
Since ubuntu didn't find my windows OS during the original install, how can I hope that reinstalling grub would find it the second time around? Is it worth trying, is there a trick? As you can probably tell, I'm not great with linux/grub/etc, so please don't assume I've done the most obvious thing--I haven't. Thanks for your time, experience and advice.
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I have win server 2016 on one hard drive and it uses legacy bios mbr. For some reason I couldn't get windows to install with UEFI a couple years back and never thought about it again---til now.
I added a brand new SSD for ubuntu. When I tried to install Ubuntu using the install gui, it did not detect any other OS. So, I stopped, verified that safeboot and such were disabled in the bios, but still no other OS was detected during ubuntu install. I then pulled out my windows hard drive and set it on the desk (was getting nervous about messing it up (and yes I have a seperate bootable clone of my windows boot drive)). I installed ubuntu using the "something else" option. I made a 300 MB partition and labeled it for grub bios. I made the rest of the disk a primary partition for ubuntu. Installed it, and all is well. However, when I put back in my windows boot drive, to no suprise grub does not find it when I boot with shift held down. But I can use the bios to select the windows disk and it will boot. However, that requires me physically at the computer--and I work on this computer remotely 90% fo the time, and I need to switch sides roughly daily.
I would like grub to recognize my windows boot drive. Then I would have the option to tell grub to reboot into windows from the command line. This way I could do this all remotely--which is how I usually use this workstation.
Since ubuntu didn't find my windows OS during the original install, how can I hope that reinstalling grub would find it the second time around? Is it worth trying, is there a trick? As you can probably tell, I'm not great with linux/grub/etc, so please don't assume I've done the most obvious thing--I haven't. Thanks for your time, experience and advice.
GB