Dual boot. What the crap happened?

[ktmrider530]

Hey, well i used ubuntu for years, but when i go tmy blackberry i needed windows so i did a dual boot. But, for some gay reason my GRUB boot manager got overwritten by windows' gay one. I still have my full ubuntu OS there, i just can't access it. I'm not great with computers, but i would like to be able to use ubuntu without reinstalling it. Help?

[manipulate]

You have to boot from an Ubuntu live CD and rewrite GRUB to the MBR, just google for that.

[ktmrider530]

Hmm, seems simple enough.
I'll give it a shot.

[Jordan L.]

Why doesn't it work with Windows Bootloader?

[ktmrider530]

It just boots directly to XP. No options for any other OS.

[Whinis]

winblows does not recognize any other operating system but itself so it deletes all boot loaders. what version of Ubuntu where you using and if 9.10 did you upgrade to grub 2 yet ?

If you have grub 2 then use this http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide

otherwise burn this http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ to restore grub

[ktmrider530]

winblows does not recognize any other operating system but itself so it deletes all boot loaders. what version of Ubuntu where you using and if 9.10 did you upgrade to grub 2 yet ?

If you have grub 2 then use this http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide

otherwise burn this http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ to restore grub

I was using 9.10 and i dunno, if 2.0 was included in the update then yes. Otherwise no.

[Gone]

I had the same issue. Reinstall GRUB, and edit menu.lst.

[Uhriventis]

Always dual boot in this order. Windows install then Linux install. If you do it the other way around Windows starts and refuses to recognize ETX3(4) or any Linux file system.

[MarkW7]

+1 for Uhriventis, also always install the earlist version of windows first.

So, XP, Vista, Ubuntu. etc.