by buschbarber » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:44 am
Thank you!!
I have been involved in IT since 1985, but mostly Windows and Dos. Not any Linux. I retired in 2003 and recently became fascinated with Ubuntu.
My PC is an HP MCE m7060n 3Ghz P4, 2Gb ram, and 3 SATA HD's. I found that I could hit F12, when I boot the PC, and choose which HD to boot from. I just did not know how to make the Grub Loader work again.
I originally had XP MCE on one HD and just data on the others. When I first installed Ubuntu, it put the Grub Loader on the HD with MCE. Later, I installed Ultimate 2.0, on another HD.
Wanting to install XP Pro in place of Ultimate 2.0, I disconnected the other two HD's and just left the one connected. After I installed XP Pro, I had a need to hook up the HD with MCE on it so I could copy over files to XP Pro. When I booted the PC, the Grub menu would start to load and fail with an error 21. I had seen that before when helping a friend install Ubuntu on an External HD connected by a USB cable.
It was then that I realized I had to hit F12, every time I booted, to ensure that my system at least booted up with XP Pro.
After I discovered the Super Grub Disk, I was able to boot with that and choose to boot from Ultimate 1.9. Before I got too familiar with the Super Grub Disk, someone suggested entering Grub, from Terminal, and using that to ReDo the existing Grub Loader. I was then able to edit Menu.lst and properly Title each menu choice on the Grub Menu.
Now everything works just fine.
If only I could get Ultimate to recognize my Nvidia Gforce 8400GS card, I could output to my HDTV and also run Google Earth. Because I have an Integrated Intel Graphics adapter on my PC, I installed the 8400GS PCI card. It works fine with Windows, but I cannot boot and version of Linux without setting the Default Video, in the PC BIOS, to Onboard. Ubuntu will then boot, but it requires that the monitor be connected to the Onboard adapter. When I boot from Windows, however, it detects the Nvidia card and automatically switches over to the Nvidia card and runs the Nvidia driver. Ubuntu will not do that.
There is no way to disable the Onboard Intel Adapter. Setting the BIOS Video default to PCI is the only other choice and when I do that, Linux will not boot. It just Hangs, no matter what version.
Asus P5Q Mobo
4Gb Corsair Ram
Intel Core 2 Quad 9400 2.66Ghz
Nvidia Gforce 9800GTX+ PCIe 512Mb
Realtek ALC1200 8ch Audio Adapter
WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI
3 SATA Internal HDD - 250Gb, 250Gb, 500Gb
Ultimate Edition 2.8 64bit, Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and Windows 7 64bit