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Yes! I have Installed Ubuntu, and all is well, exept Ive got a small problem with GRUB. When i press enter to start with Windows instead of Ubuntu, it restarts and asks me what OS i want to use again! I'm thinking there might be a bug in the 1.5 version of GRUB but I can't be certain.
That tells us nothing except that you only list the output of your USB pen drive with 1Gb capacity with one Fat16 partition using up all the space.
The "fdisk -l" should list every partition of every hard disk in your PC. The "-l" is "-" and a small "L".
Try again.
"fdisk -l" is useful because a ntfs partition is type 7 and Linux is Type 83. If we know where they are we can advise how you can overcome the problem.
Assuming your hda is the first disk and so it will be known to Grub as (hd0). hda1 is the only Type 7 partition so Windows must be inside. It also has a "*" meaning it is an active or bootable partition. This partition is known to Grub as (hd0,0).
You have Grub and when the Brub screen first appears pressing the "c" key will get you into a Grub prompt (terminal mode with Grub, as you are talking to Grub directly).
There is no installed operating system in a PC that Grub cannot boot. So try and report these commands at Grub prompt
Code:
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
You don't have a booting problem if you are in a Grub prompt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! because you can ask Grub to do amazing things.
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