MSdefecter
June 19th, 2008, 09:11 AM
Hi,
First of all I know there are lots of posts relating to this but I have installed vista and then reinstalled on a seperate hard drive ubuntu 8.04. I used to have xp and 7.10 setup on a dual boot and that went fine but 8.04 and vista seem to be far more hostile towards each other beacuse when I try to boot from my ubuntu drive I get a GRUB error 17 appear. When I boot from vista it works fine suggesting that grub now no longer installs into the windows mbr like it would under xp. I am unsure of the exact command to use and which editor use to edit GRUB to point to my vista hard drive. I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to dual boot these two OS's and in what order to do everything as a fresh reinstall of both systems is not to much of a problem as long as it solves it. I would prefer not to resort to WUBI if it can be helped so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
First of all I know there are lots of posts relating to this but I have installed vista and then reinstalled on a seperate hard drive ubuntu 8.04. I used to have xp and 7.10 setup on a dual boot and that went fine but 8.04 and vista seem to be far more hostile towards each other beacuse when I try to boot from my ubuntu drive I get a GRUB error 17 appear. When I boot from vista it works fine suggesting that grub now no longer installs into the windows mbr like it would under xp. I am unsure of the exact command to use and which editor use to edit GRUB to point to my vista hard drive. I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to dual boot these two OS's and in what order to do everything as a fresh reinstall of both systems is not to much of a problem as long as it solves it. I would prefer not to resort to WUBI if it can be helped so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.