Help with Dual Boot Please

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eztrog88

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Not much time to explain guys. I'm doing this for a class and have to run to another class. I'll check back later tonight for any advise you can leave.

I've got a machine with Ubuntu installed. I installed Vista today on it's own partition and now the machine boots straight to vista with no boot loader after BIOS. Is there a way for me to setup up GRUB or LILO to let me boot my Ubuntu install?

Total newbie to dual booting, and to Linux. Help me out here, what are the steps I need to take to get a boot loaders so I can boot Ubuntu or Vista.

Please no OS Bashing, these are the two I am required to load for this class.

Thanks!

Dan

EDIT: I do have a bootable Ubuntu CD, so I can access a shell terminal.
 
You need to enable the option to go to either, and set a default if there is not input by you.

In Winxp Right click my computer, Select Properties. Select Advance TAB, and the Startup and Recovery Settings button at the bottom. You need to add in the other version there in the "EDIT" Button to enable the option.
 
Since you are running vista i suggest vista boot pro i use this and you can customize it and give it names and everything
 
>I've got a machine with Ubuntu installed. I installed Vista today on it's own partition and now the machine boots straight to vista with no boot loader after BIOS. Is there a way for me to setup up GRUB or LILO to let me boot my Ubuntu install?

Vista (and XP for that matter) will overwrite whatever MBR is present before the install. So, if you have Ubuntu installed with GRUB, then install Windows, GRUB will disappear and windows will straight-boot into itself.

The solution is very simple, though, so not to worry. I trust you have an Ubuntu Live CD? Boot from the CD and select the Repair function (may be different depending on what version of Ubuntu you have). If you don't want to take the risk on a Live CD, you can always burn a copy of the Alternate CD, Boot to it, and select Install. Don't worry, you're not really going to install it! Rather, once you start selecting options, you can hit Escape to shunt you to a screen with a long list of functions. Simply go down towards the bottom and select Install GRUB or Install LILO.

--Jay
 
imsati said:
>I've got a machine with Ubuntu installed. I installed Vista today on it's own partition and now the machine boots straight to vista with no boot loader after BIOS. Is there a way for me to setup up GRUB or LILO to let me boot my Ubuntu install?

Vista (and XP for that matter) will overwrite whatever MBR is present before the install. So, if you have Ubuntu installed with GRUB, then install Windows, GRUB will disappear and windows will straight-boot into itself.

The solution is very simple, though, so not to worry. I trust you have an Ubuntu Live CD? Boot from the CD and select the Repair function (may be different depending on what version of Ubuntu you have). If you don't want to take the risk on a Live CD, you can always burn a copy of the Alternate CD, Boot to it, and select Install. Don't worry, you're not really going to install it! Rather, once you start selecting options, you can hit Escape to shunt you to a screen with a long list of functions. Simply go down towards the bottom and select Install GRUB or Install LILO.

--Jay
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I knew Vista would delete GRUB, but I had no idea how to get it back, and the instructions I had didn't work. :eek:

Thanks for the help! Going to try this now.
 
Super Grub Disk

* Use Super Grub Disk
Grub

If you have booted your linux distro with Super Grub Disk, or a live CD and want to restore your grub, follow the below instructions:

* As root (or with sudo), type grub
* When at the grub prompt, type find /boot/grub/stage2
* This will return something like (hd0,2)
* To setup the boot partition boot type root (hd0,2). This is the harddrive and the partition your linux is installed on...
* And then to configure grub type setup (hd0)
* Now you're done, so exit with quit

That's the best method imo. It's helpful so you can always restore the grub bootloader.
 
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