Installing Ubuntu without GRUB

Rob Whyte fudge at thefudge.net
Mon Jan 11 03:10:23 UTC 2016


I have not heard of a bios offering to boot partitions, only drives.
What is the motherboard or bios you are using?
You could re-install your windows boot loader and try to get that to
boot your Linux OS instead of it is that important to you.
Can you see any of the available options though, windows boot loader,
Grub or the Bios boot option menu?
thanks
Rob


On 11/01/16 13:41, blind Pete wrote:
> Brendan Perrine wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 13:46:51 -0600
>> "Glenn / Lenny" <gervin at cableone.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Again,
>>> I have been researching this concern, and it seems to me that I came up
>>> with an idea that might work. I just don't recall the installation steps
>>> to know for sure if I will get my option to do this step. I suspect that
>>> my Windows partition is going to be /dev/sda1 and the empty partition
>>> will be /dev/sda2. Do we get the option of which partition to put GRUB
>>> onto? If so, I suspect that if I can put GRUB onto the Linux partition,
>>> that I will only be presented with GRUB when I down arrow to the second
>>> partition that my BIOS offers, and having GRUB there is no big deal. Any
>>> thoughts? Glenn
>> This may limit your options if say you forget your administrative
>> passwords as many guides suggest using grub to boot into rescue mode for
>> that for example
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrative-password
> Bootable USB drives and DVDs will allow you to get at your main 
> installation if necessary, as long as you have not encrypted it.  
> If you have done that then you don't need my help.  
>
>
>> Grub also allows you to boot to sometimes an older kernel. I don't know if
>> your bios has this fucntionality.
>>
>> IF you are using the desktop installer you if you select something else in
>> the installation process it will allow to chose where to install grub as
>> well as many more advanced options. However you may need to know more
>> about filesystems as some like xfs or btrfs are not likely to have been
>> tested by the people who wrote your bios.  I would likely try to stay with
>> ext4 filesystem for doing this. As some other will likely be not tested
>> and could posibly have problems.




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