Lost Grub - 2

flavio seixas oivalf_nix at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 21 00:07:19 UTC 2009


Hi Ubuntu
users

I hope that someone can help me.

I have a PC
with 2 hard disks.

The main HD
is a SATA HD with 160GB running windows XP.
In the
machine setup it appears as THIRD IDE MASTER, and main boot option.

The second
one is a SCSII 60GB HD.
In the
machine setup it appears as PRIMARY IDE SLAVE

I Installed
Ubuntu 9 on the 60GB HD, but at finish when I restart the machine, the GRUB does not appear and, in
consequence, I am unnable to choice boot to the linux way, so, Windows runs
automatically.

During the
Ubuntu installation proccess, the question asking “were do you want to install
GRUB (or LILO)” did not appear.
In
consequence I do not know at least if the Grub (or Lilo) is installed or not. And
if is, in which HD????

It’s a strange thing!  All linux versions
that I knew until the moment has this question has default.

My question
is: What I do to install the GRUB (OR LILO) on main HD SATA, in a way that can
be possible to choose the boot for Linux or Windows????

Someone could help-me?

I am a beginner
at Linux and please, I´d appreciate if the answer could be like “for dummies”.

Here are my partitions:

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA ST340014A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End    Size    Type      File system  Flags
1      32.3kB  30.0GB  30.0GB  primary  ntfs        boot
2      30.0GB  40.0GB  10.0GB  extended                   
5      30.0GB  32.0GB  1999MB  logical  linux-swap       
6      32.0GB  40.0GB  8011MB  logical  ext3             


ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD161HJ (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End    Size    Type    File system  Flags
1      32.3kB  62.9GB  62.9GB  primary  ntfs        boot
2      62.9GB  160GB  97.1GB  primary  ntfs             

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$

thanks

flavio


      




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