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pancake




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PostPosted: Tue, 22nd Aug 2006 17:56    Post subject: installing ubuntu on second hard disc
I ended up with a spare hard drive so though i would give ubuntu it's own disc instead of dual booting off 1 hard drive.
But every time i finsih install and reboot i get a 'error loading os' message.
Windows still boots fine on the other disc but i cant for the life of me get ubuntu to boot.
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pancake




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Aug 2006 20:17    Post subject:
Well i got round that problem, had to change grub to use hda(0,0) as no matter how i installed it always set it to hda(2,0), looking on the net it seems a common probel with linux, would of though a solution would of appeared for it.
And i tried ,ubuntu,mepis, and yopper but all did the same.
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Basil-Brush




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Aug 2006 18:50    Post subject:
You need grub installed on the mbr of the first disk your machine looks at
How is your bios set to detect the hard drives?
I have mine set to auto detection of both hda(winXP) and hdb (ubuntu)

Grubs a bit quirky though although its installed on mbr of hda if I remove hdb I cannot boot windows.

Hopefully sYn will be around to answer this.. Very Happy
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