Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[Liam Proven]

On 12 June 2012 19:26, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> I am cleaning up an older computer that had before successfully dual booted.
>  I did a full reinstall of Windows and installed all of the patches etc.  it
> is now at Service Pack 3.  Because it is an older computer, I installed
> Xububtu 12.04 (32 bit).  The Xubuntu install went smoothly until it came
> time to reboot.  Grub is missing and the computer boots to Windows, (no boot
> menu).  What must be done to force grub to be installed?  On the Xubuntu
> install disk there is no obvious way to install GRUB on an existing Xubuntu
> install that doesn't have Grub to dual boot.  I probably am missing
> something.
>
> Some information that might be useful.
>
> 1. Windows XP SP3 is on a 30 GB hard drive, /dev/sda.  This was reinstalled
> first and no apps have yet been reinstalled.
>
> 2. Xubuntu 12.04 is on a separate 120 GB hard drive, /dev/sdb.  When doing
> the install I chose "something else" so I could repartition the slave hard
> drive (/dev/sdb) as such;
>
> partition 1 - primary partition - 50 GB - Ext4 - mounted as /home
> partition 2 - primary partition - 10 GB - swap area
> partition 3 - primary partition - 50 BG - Ext4 - mounted as /
> the rest of /dev/sdb is unused and reserved for future use.

Where did you tell it to put the bootloader? On sda or sdb?

Is it possible in the BIOS to tell the PC to boot from  sdb instead of sda?

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