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having trouble loading ubuntu


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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

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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?

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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

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