Lost Grub - 2

[NoOp]

On 07/20/2009 05:07 PM, flavio seixas wrote:
> 
> 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”.

I think that this will help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
Have a read through that and come back for if you still have questions
*before* making any modifications & we'll try to help you through it.

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