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help installing Ultimate 1.5 on a separate hdd

PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:07 am
by quattro
hello,
i am completely new on this, i have a copy of Ubuntu live cd and working properly as a live cd but i cant instal is on a separate hdd i have vista installed on a 2x 250gb RAID0 and i have a 500gb SATA hdd formated and ready to use but every time i instal ubuntu nothing happens no dual boot i just boot in to vista as if i only have one OS and the 500gb hdd just disappears from vista !!! i have to format it again to show up .

i tried many times, at one attempt i had dual boot but when i select i only get Grub>_

please help!!!!!

Re: help installing Ultimate 1.5 on a separate hdd

PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:04 am
by TheeMahn
quattro wrote:hello,
i am completely new on this, i have a copy of Ubuntu live cd and working properly as a live cd but i cant instal is on a separate hdd i have vista installed on a 2x 250gb RAID0 and i have a 500gb SATA hdd formated and ready to use but every time i instal ubuntu nothing happens no dual boot i just boot in to vista as if i only have one OS and the 500gb hdd just disappears from vista !!! i have to format it again to show up .

i tried many times, at one attempt i had dual boot but when i select i only get Grub>_

please help!!!!!


Boot from the live dvd open a terminal and enter the following & post the results here:
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sudo fdisk -l


Dmesg:
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dmesg


And I will see what I can do for you.

Re: help installing Ultimate 1.5 on a separate hdd

PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:12 pm
by DaddyX3
quattro wrote:hello,
i am completely new on this, i have a copy of Ubuntu live cd and working properly as a live cd but i cant instal is on a separate hdd i have vista installed on a 2x 250gb RAID0 and i have a 500gb SATA hdd formated and ready to use but every time i instal ubuntu nothing happens no dual boot i just boot in to vista as if i only have one OS and the 500gb hdd just disappears from vista !!! i have to format it again to show up .

i tried many times, at one attempt i had dual boot but when i select i only get Grub>_

please help!!!!!

You might also check that you are booting from the right disk in BIOS, my suspicions say that If you were booting in Vista on your Raid 0 and you installed to a separate 500 GiB drive, then you have to set BIOS to boot from that disk to allow GRUB to work ;) I don't know your particular PC, but, try holding down the DEL key when you first boot the computer - this will get you into BIOS where you can specify which hard drive to boot from. Usually it will be under BOOT OPTIONS. Do a little digging around in BIOS and make sure your booting from the 500GIB drive you installed to, when your done hit F10 to save to CMOS and exit :D