hosinfefer Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 dled the 8.1 server i think it is. Burnt to dvd and can boot into it fine. I have 3 V.rap and 2 in raid 0 for vista 64bit. I want to load the linus on the 3rd v.rap drive and i have a 1tb drive for stoage. I have only been able to load it on the 1tb (think its a drive problem with my enw rap), anyways once its on my 1tb drive it does not seem to want to boot from it. I have unplugged all my data cables to everything but the 1tb drive and it still wont boot. How do i get it to boot...i dont have to boot from the dvd and then run off the hard drive do I? Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Do you get an error, or does nothing happen at all? Does your drive need drivers? Is your install media corrupted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Have you installed a bootloader such as GRUB or LILO? Or has your Ubuntu install been added to your Windows bootloader? You may need to press a key during boot and select it from a menu. It's an odd decision to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu Server Edition, are you aware that the server edition has no GUI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hosinfefer Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 It says somethign along the lines of no boot file or soemthig like that. Dual boot would be nice. I am new to linux so I am not sure what grub or lilo is. I am running server because I want to get good with it because of work. I am looking to get a project approved using linux and vmware. I am turning my home box into a test computer. Its 8gb of 1150mhz ram with 2tb of space. I am hoping it will be enough to run linux and vmware with 3 or 4 vm computers. So I need to install a bootloader such as grub or lio (is one better then the other). I want to install linux on the 300gb raptor. I thought i could just boot from the cd and load it. how do i load a bootloader? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 If no bootloader is installed, the Ubuntu install should have given you the option to install GRUB. (It might give you the option to install LILO too, but I think GRUB is default on Ubuntu.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hosinfefer Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 ok so is grub something i have to install before i install unbuntu? Or does it install it during ubuntu install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 The Ubuntu installer should have given you an option to install a boot loader. You should be able to install GRUB separately though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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