Multiple hard drives

[Phillip Susi]

It sounds like you got grub installed on the third hard disk, so you 
have to have your bios set to boot from there or it doesn't load grub. 
If you have your bios boot from the disks with windows, then grub does 
not enter the picture.

You should be able to configure grub by editing your menu.lst so that it 
can boot the windows installations, and leave your bios set to boot the 
third drive.  Then you can choose at boot time which of the 3 systems 
you want grub to load.  I know that this is possible, but I'd have to 
spend some time playing with it and reading the man pages to do it, so I 
can't describe to you how off the top of my head.



adel wollemas wrote:
>  I am totally new to Linux and Ubuntu. But guess what, my first 
> installation went smoothly and I am even writing this email from Ubuntu.
> 
> My problem is that I have three hard drives: 1. Maxtor SATA drive 80 GB. 
> running Winxp professional. 2. Western Digital standard ide 40 GB 
> running Windows 2000 professional. 3. Last but not the least is Maxtor 
> standard ide 10 GB running UBUNTU.
> 
> The only way I can boot UBUNTU is if I set it as the first choice on the 
> boot sequence in Bios. If it is not the first choice, then I get the 
> option of winxp or win2k. My guess is that grub is not seeing the other 
> two os. Can somebody help me?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Adel
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