My PC wont boot from grub, goes right into vista

Nvidiaguy07

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I've done a dual and triple boot before with vista/xp and ubuntu but im having some problems this time around. Here's what happened:

First i installed Vista on my 1st hard drive (74GB all to Vista)
then i installed OS X on its on hard drive (200GB all to OSX)

from there when i restarted it just went into Vista which is what i half expected because i figured that once i installed Linux everything would be fixed because Grub would see 3 OSes and put them in there. At worst i was expecting Linux to install grub and to only detect Vista and Ubuntu.

I then installed Ubuntu to my 3rd hard drive. Its 500GB and had a 300GB partition dedicated to storage already. So i installed ubuntu on a 80GB partition and made a swap partition of 8GB. leaving the rest of the disk unused in case i want to try anything out.

I then restarted and to my surprise it went right into vista. I tried changing boot order of my hard drives and moved the 500GB one first and that did nothing. I booted from my live cd and went into grub and like i thought it shows ubuntu and Vista in there (so even if i get this worked out ill have to add OS X). Do i have to move grub to a different location on the hard drive? I dont know what else to do to make it boot from the grub manager, I've done this before on this computer but havent came across this prob before.

HELP!!!!! lol
 

daniel49

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grub is installed on the ubuntu drive now?
That part was not clear on your post.
I would have just installed it (grub) on hdd0 and allowed grub to be your boot manager?
 

Nvidiaguy07

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i think thats what must have happened. The only thing that confuses me is why did it install it on the ubuntu drive when everytime i have done this in the past it will detect that windows is there and it installs it on hdd0 by itself? How do i move grub to the MBR now?
 

daniel49

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it should give you the option, when you are installing ubuntu, which drive to install grub on.
So you could simply reinstall ubuntu and make the right choice this time.

Or if you want to try another way look here.
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