Dual Booting Kubuntu 9.10 and Vista

[Rakmos]

I originally installed Windows Vista on the first hard drive. I then entered the live cd and installed 9.10 Kubuntu to the second hard drive. After installing Kubuntu, I am unable to boot to Vista. I have attempted to figure out what to do to the grub loader to detect the other install, but because they are not both on the same physical disk, grub isn't even seeing it. What would be the easiest way to get an item added to my GRUB menu??

/dev/sda2 has my Windows install.

sudo fdisk -l ::
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12 96358+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 13 9730 78046208 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 1 12 96327 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x58fe0143

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 19452 156247040 83 Linux

[vinnywright]

Re: Dual Booting Kubuntu 9.10 and Vista

have you tryed opening a terminal and doing

sudo update-grub

?

whare did you install grub to?


the MBR of sda or sdb or a partition on one?

VINNY

[Rakmos]

Re: Dual Booting Kubuntu 9.10 and Vista

I installed Kubuntu on sdb. I did not install GRUB to anywhere. It is with the linux source by default on sdb.

[vinnywright]

Re: Dual Booting Kubuntu 9.10 and Vista

I installed Kubuntu on sdb. I did not install GRUB to anywhere. It is with the linux source by default on sdb.

yup it is but on the sumery screen of the install thars a advanced button hiting that brings up a box to controle whare grub goes.....so I asume you dident tell it eneything so your probley right as far as it going to sdb's MBR.

now did you try the update-grub comand ?

VINNY

[irish man]

Re: Dual Booting Kubuntu 9.10 and Vista

Try going to bios and making the drive you installed Kubuntu on the first to boot...or if you can on startup choose that disk.If you use the bios you should have grub show up with all your choices to boot...