No Grub installed on dual boot XP Kubuntu system

[JasonMcK]

Yes I'm an ubernoob looking for some help
I have a newly installed SATA drive with XP running.
on a separate ATA HDD I have installed Kubuntu
I never have the option to boot to Kubuntu
I used the live CD to install the Linux software and received no Grub prompts during the install.

I've tried to reinstall Grub using the live CD and the terminal screen but my commands generate errors.
grub> root (hda1, hda2)

I'm wondering if it is because I have my Windows drive formated NTSF?

Any help would be great

J

[vinsky]

Re: No Grub installed on dual boot XP Kubuntu system

I made the same installation.

Did you installed XP first ?

The first hard drive should be Windows and second Kubuntu in BIOS. Grub will do the job by itself if drives are in the right order.

Maybe I'm wrong but that's the way I got it to work here.

[Qqmike]

Re: No Grub installed on dual boot XP Kubuntu system

Follow this carefully:

How To GRUB Methods - Toolkit
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0

for example, your notation is not correct in this:
grub> root (hda1, hda2)
It should be
grub> root (hdx,y)
for some x and some y --
run
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
to find x & y

Sounds like vinsky got it right, but you can fix yours by properly re-installing GRUB.
Please continue to post questions/results back here, not under the how-to -- Thanks)

[JasonMcK]

Re: No Grub installed on dual boot XP Kubuntu system

Thanks. I'll work on it tonight.

I'll check my bios. I do not have the option for multiple HDD in my bios for boot sequence, but I'll see what I've done wrong in there.


J

[JasonMcK]

Re: No Grub installed on dual boot XP Kubuntu system

OK I guess Grub installed on my Linux partition. Changing the boot sequence in the Bios got it to dual boot.

Thanks for your help.

Now to read up on mounting hard drives

J

[Qqmike]

Re: No Grub installed on dual boot XP Kubuntu system

Mounting, not my favorite topic, but in GUI (Graphical User Interface) I get good results using
K > System Settings > Advanced tab > Disk & Filesystems, Administrator button at lower right, and go from there.
CLI: At the command line, conceptually it's simple:
Make a directory to mount the drive at and mount it (often, the /media directory is used for this), using sudo.
Like to mount sdb3:
sudo mkdir /media/sdb3
sudo mount /dev/sdb3 /media/sdb3
That almost always works, just as is. In practice, you can add a bunch of parameters and options depending on the format of the device (i.e., the partition).

Click to the mounting & filesystem pages of these:

Bigpond, home: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/
Tuxfiles: http://www.tuxfiles.org/
Psychocats: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php