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Old 12-06-2007, 07:26 AM   #1
mjmeche
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Grub on wrong hdd


I was installing kubuntu 64 on my puter dual booting with xp my primary boot drive is a sata drive, for some reason grub was installed on the ide storage drive. I got grub on the sata, but when i plug in the ide hdd that grub boots first (confusion) how do i delete it?
 
Old 12-06-2007, 07:44 AM   #2
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Your BIOS settings determine the boot order, if you want the SATA drive to boot first change your settings.
 
Old 12-06-2007, 08:34 AM   #3
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Yeah, I digging into the bios and found that it was in another menu instead of the boot priority menu, Geesh I hate looking stupid next time
 
  


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