well i left yesterday planning to do some benchmarks on linux/wine.
i installed Linux on my machine setting it up on another partition on the same drive as my windows, when i rebooted the machine went straight into windows and didnt offer the Grub bootloader options, so i used the 'super grub boot loader cd' and swapped round the partitions, so now grub boots and gives me the option to boot Ubuntu or XP.
when i choose Ubuntu i get the error 'No active partitions', when i choose XP i get no NTLDR available. so i decided to check the options and booted using the ubuntu live cd.
Grub has recognised that Ubuntu is on: (hd2,4), although this means i get the error mentioned above.
let me know if this is just a case of something simple, like loading partition magic and setting the linux drive as an active partition, im pretty sure that it already is, im just a bit confused over why i didnt get any grub options to overwrite the windows boot loader, when i installed the newest version of Ubuntu(8.04).
i installed Linux on my machine setting it up on another partition on the same drive as my windows, when i rebooted the machine went straight into windows and didnt offer the Grub bootloader options, so i used the 'super grub boot loader cd' and swapped round the partitions, so now grub boots and gives me the option to boot Ubuntu or XP.
when i choose Ubuntu i get the error 'No active partitions', when i choose XP i get no NTLDR available. so i decided to check the options and booted using the ubuntu live cd.
Grub has recognised that Ubuntu is on: (hd2,4), although this means i get the error mentioned above.
let me know if this is just a case of something simple, like loading partition magic and setting the linux drive as an active partition, im pretty sure that it already is, im just a bit confused over why i didnt get any grub options to overwrite the windows boot loader, when i installed the newest version of Ubuntu(8.04).