[biluris]

i had ubuntu installed on a partition of my second hard disk
i the primary i have install windows 7
everything was good intill the instalation was over but when i rebooted it didn't asked me in which operating system i wanted to boot it automaticly booted to windows
i changed the boot priority in bios
but again nothing
i booted from a live cd and the partion had the correct files inside....
i searched a litttle and i come up with this site: here
i think that some think gone wrong with te grubs(wft is that?)
i folowed the instrucion but nothing i came up with an error
the only think that i haven't tried so far is to try with another partition the instruction(confused?then don't give a f*ck about the last sentence)and the reason is beacause i am afraid in case i formate accidently any drive....
if i confused you feel free to ask every question
thnx :wub:

[Shining White]

Hello , sorry for the late reply ,

grub is the bootloader of the linux . in simply saying , grub is use for the multi boot section .
Which mean , also show in your boot OS selection menu

you can check your OS is listed in here

Code:

/boot/grub/menu.lst

if not this work , please provide us more information , what Kernel version you are using , what is the Linux OS ?

[Anima Templi]

Hmm as i see it, it is because that you have the ubuntu on another HDD. The second HDD is not set as primary hard drive and therefore your computer will automatically boot from your primary HDD (the one with windows).

So i see two options:
1. Make a partition on your primary HDD with windows and it will give you the grub menu.
2. Set your computer to boot from your primary HDD.

This is the solution i wil suggest. Please correct me if you have misunderstood you.

[biluris]

Hmm as i see it, it is because that you have the ubuntu on another HDD. The second HDD is not set as primary hard drive and therefore your computer will automatically boot from your primary HDD (the one with windows).

So i see two options:
1. Make a partition on your primary HDD with windows and it will give you the grub menu.
2. Set your computer to boot from your primary HDD.

This is the solution i wil suggest. Please correct me if you have misunderstood you.

as i said i had changed it to boot not from the HDD that i had the windows but from the one that i had the linux in the partition(is confusing i know)

basicly this is how i had set it to boot:
first priority linux HDD
second priority windows HDD
third to boot from LiveCD

to sum up:
i have tried the second option
i can't try the first option because my hard drive is nearly full
hope it helps you

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Hello , sorry for the late reply ,

grub is the bootloader of the linux . in simply saying , grub is use for the multi boot section .
Which mean , also show in your boot OS selection menu

you can check your OS is listed in here

Code:

/boot/grub/menu.lst

if not this work , please provide us more information , what Kernel version you are using , what is the Linux OS ?

i will try it and i will inform you

[Anima Templi]

Have you tried to format your seond hard drive as FAT32 and install ubuntu one more time?

[slbmeh]

A brief overview of what happens behind the scenes when you start up your computer may assist you with your issue.

When your computer boots up it is initially controlled by the BIOS. The BIOS has a user and/or preconfigured set of devices to search for a bootable media. It cycles through the media in a specific order. It will generally seek 510 bytes into the device to see if the next two bytes have a signature of 0x55 and 0xAA, which is the flag telling the BIOS that it has a bootloader. If the flag is detected it will load into memory 512 bytes, those two and the previous 510. The BIOS will then hand over operation and execute the code contained within the 512 bytes.

Generally 510 bytes is not large enough to load an OS kernel that can be highly configurable and located an nearly any location. This is when a multi stage bootloader is used. The initial boot loader code is considered stage 1 and only contains the information necessary to load the stage 2 bootloader. The stage 2 bootloader does not have the restriction of being the size of the MBR.

The stage 2 bootloader normally has some sort of configuration where you tell it where to find the kernel and how to load it. The boot loader then passes execution on to the kernel. The kernel from there will initialize itself and begin to fork processes if it is a multiprocessing kernel, otherwise it will follow its instruction set and pass off execution from application to application as needed.

So, in conclusion, do you have a bootloader installed in the MBR of your primary drive according to the BIOS? Is that bootloader aware of any other bootloaders to chain load, as well as any kernels it should load directly?