Vista + Ubuntu 9.04, 2 drives

2009-05-17 19:15:38

#1

GCFC: Davide Santon; +45|5950|NY/CT

I was wondering how I would go about setting up a bootloader for vista and ubuntu
i tried but it only works if they are both on the same drive
anyone know how to set one up with them being on separate drives?

2009-05-17 19:23:00

#2

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6588|NYC / Hamburg

1: Install Vista to Drive 1
2: Set boot priority to Drive 2
3: Install Ubuntu to Drive 2.
4: Reinstall GRUB and edit accordingly if necessary

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2009-05-17 19:29:27

#3

GCFC: Davide Santon; +45|5950|NY/CT

i was thinking of doing that
any other ways?

2009-05-17 19:32:36

#4

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6588|NYC / Hamburg

Seems like the most logical and straightforward way of doing this. I suppose you could boot from your windows disk and use EasyBCD to add linux to the windows bootloader

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2009-05-17 19:39:09

#5

GCFC: Davide Santon; +45|5950|NY/CT

tried that but it doesnt pick up the other drive, it thinks linux is on the c drive and it wont let me change that it's not
and when i try to boot it i get an error
thanks though

2009-05-18 09:56:31

#6

Yaocelotl: :D; +221|6671|Keyboard

Hi, if you are having problems configuring the MBR and cba to mess with menu.lst, then just put in the live CD again and try to do a normal install of ubuntu, when asked for the disk drives just cancel out the installation, remove the CD and restart your computer. Your Grub should be working back again .

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