Re: Installed Kubuntu but PC boots straight into Windows.
Just to toss in one more little annoyance ....
You can safely view the IDE drives as "grub magnets" on this mix, wrt the Kubuntu installer. In other words, it may not be possible to induce the installer to place grub on a SATA drive, in this situation. There are two ways to work around it:
1. Pull the power connectors off the IDE drives until you're done installing Kubuntu and installing grub on the SATA drive's mbr, (thus causing a royal mixup of drive ID numbers, after you reconnect the IDE drives and boot your OS), or
2. Move the grub installation to the SATA drive afterwards, using Mike's excellent tutorial for guidance.
Personally, having a somewhat similar situation, I have learned to be content with grub installed on the IDE drive, even though both Linux OS's are on SATA drives in my system.
Just to toss in one more little annoyance ....
You can safely view the IDE drives as "grub magnets" on this mix, wrt the Kubuntu installer. In other words, it may not be possible to induce the installer to place grub on a SATA drive, in this situation. There are two ways to work around it:
1. Pull the power connectors off the IDE drives until you're done installing Kubuntu and installing grub on the SATA drive's mbr, (thus causing a royal mixup of drive ID numbers, after you reconnect the IDE drives and boot your OS), or
2. Move the grub installation to the SATA drive afterwards, using Mike's excellent tutorial for guidance.
Personally, having a somewhat similar situation, I have learned to be content with grub installed on the IDE drive, even though both Linux OS's are on SATA drives in my system.
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