Lost Grub - 2

[Karl F. Larsen]

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flavio seixas wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu
> users
> 
> I hope that someone can help me.
> 
> I have a PC
> with 2 hard disks.
> 
> The main HD
> is a SATA HD with 160GB running windows XP.

	A 160 GB hard drive can have MANY systems in their partitions, not just
Windows.


> In the
> machine setup it appears as THIRD IDE MASTER, and main boot option.

	This can NOT be so. I expect the SATA HD will be /dev/hda/ and your
windows will be on /dev/had1/ partition.

> 
> The second
> one is a SCSII 60GB HD.
> In the
> machine setup it appears as PRIMARY IDE SLAVE
> 

	What your saying is the 60GB HD is the second hard drive and is /dev/sdb/.


> I Installed
> Ubuntu 9 on the 60GB HD, but at finish when I restart the machine, the GRUB does not appear and, in
> consequence, I am unnable to choice boot to the linux way, so, Windows runs
> automatically.
> 
	You have some problem with your system.


> During the
> Ubuntu installation proccess, the question asking â??were do you want to install
> GRUB (or LILO)â?? did not appear.
> In
> consequence I do not know at least if the Grub (or Lilo) is installed or not. And
> if is, in which HD????
> 
> Itâ??s a strange thing!  All linux versions
> that I knew until the moment has this question has default.
> 
> My question
> is: What I do to install the GRUB (OR LILO) on main HD SATA, in a way that can
> be possible to choose the boot for Linux or Windows????
> 
> Someone could help-me?
> 
> I am a beginner
> at Linux and please, I´d appreciate if the answer could be like â??for dummiesâ??.
> 
> Here are my partitions:
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
> Model: ATA ST340014A (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start  End    Size    Type      File system  Flags
> 1      32.3kB  30.0GB  30.0GB  primary  ntfs        boot
> 2      30.0GB  40.0GB  10.0GB  extended                   
> 5      30.0GB  32.0GB  1999MB  logical  linux-swap       
> 6      32.0GB  40.0GB  8011MB  logical  ext3             
> 
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
> Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD161HJ (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start  End    Size    Type    File system  Flags
> 1      32.3kB  62.9GB  62.9GB  primary  ntfs        boot
> 2      62.9GB  160GB  97.1GB  primary  ntfs             
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$
> 
> thanks
> 
> flavio
> 
> 
>       
> Well I can't make out what your saying about your 2 hard drives. But there is a lot of 
ntfs file systems that are for Windows. I can't find your SATA Drive out
but it might be what you call a scsi drive.

Too confusing, sorry.


73 Karl



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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