installed ubuntu 7.10 from scratch, but will not boot correctly

[rasczak]

i installed ubuntu yesterday on my 36gb raptor drive which has two other partitions (win2k and winxp pro) i let the partitiono manager do it thing during the install (default settings all the way) making sure it was pointing to the correct hdd and partition.

it installed just fine, but it was time to reboot, i was given an error, operating system cannot be found (!?!?!?!?!). i tried to boot manually from the raptor drive via the esc key, but I still got the same message. on a whim i decided to change the bootdrive to my 200gig (it was installed at the time I was installing ubuntu), Lo and Behold, grub starts up and I get the option to boot into ubuntu.

i find this very strange. what's worse is i wanted to scrub that 200gb drive and partition it for programs and applications. i'm lost, so is the grub.conf file located on this drive now, and if so can i just move it over to a partition on my raptor drive without breaking grub or my MBR for that matter?

guess that shows me eh? next time I do a maual partition to ensure that all the files go where i want them to go.


TIA,

Joe

 

[Nothinman]

For some reason Ubuntu thought the 200G drive was the first BIOS drive so that's where it put the MBR, how are they physically connected?

 

[rasczak]

aww jeez, in the bios, my drives are as follows, sata 3 200gb, sata 4 320gb, sata 1 160gb, sata 2 36gb. as far as boot order, the 36gb was set as the first drive to boot. when i reformatted this drive and reinstalled both windows installations, it was the only drive plugged in. during the ubuntu install i plugged everything back in. big mistake on my part. well, guess i'm gonna have to live with that configuration, unless i can use the partition manager in ubuntu to seperate the portiono of the drive containing grub.