bebopcola
October 3rd, 2008, 11:38 PM
SO I am trying to have a dual boot setup I already had vista installed, on my main 750 gig hard drive I left around 160 gigs unpartitioned and I had Ubuntu use that unused space. I also have another 120 gig hard drive with windows files only.
Anyways the install seemed to go smoothly and then I restarted and boom vista starts loading no grub boot loader. I am pretty sure Ubuntu installed grub
So I launched from the live cd did a sudo fdisk -l
here is my output:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd207d207
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14024 112640000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 14024 19457 43646976 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7f6b9b85
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 70116 563200000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 70117 91201 169365262+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 70117 90340 162449248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 90341 91201 6915951 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I also tried something from a guide to reinstall grub on different hard drive
I typed
sudo grub
root (hd0,0) *** on a side note is there a guide on Linux hard drive naming vs grub hard drive naming? ***
setup (hdo) *** Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
I hope one day all this will make perfect since to me, right now i am very lost.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
Anyways the install seemed to go smoothly and then I restarted and boom vista starts loading no grub boot loader. I am pretty sure Ubuntu installed grub
So I launched from the live cd did a sudo fdisk -l
here is my output:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd207d207
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14024 112640000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 14024 19457 43646976 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7f6b9b85
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 70116 563200000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 70117 91201 169365262+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 70117 90340 162449248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 90341 91201 6915951 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I also tried something from a guide to reinstall grub on different hard drive
I typed
sudo grub
root (hd0,0) *** on a side note is there a guide on Linux hard drive naming vs grub hard drive naming? ***
setup (hdo) *** Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
I hope one day all this will make perfect since to me, right now i am very lost.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!