I recently installed Ubuntu 6.06, worked fine, I was able to boot from Windows or Ubuntu upon startup(after I enter my admin pass). Then I go and try to load up Ubuntu and it only gives me the:
Floppy Drive
Internal HDD
CD/CDW
selection and not the:
Ubuntu
Ubuntu Recovery
Other Systems:
Windows Xp
screen that I would get before. Only change that I can think of that I have made is install updates from(::rolls eyes) Windows...I've already tried going to control panel...startup and recovery screen, and only windows shows up as an OS...

Any help will be appreciated...I'm such a Linux noob.

First, Windows will not find Ubuntu.
What happens if you select the Internal HDD boot? Doesn't that make the OS-selection screen appear?

The floppy/HDD/CD options sounds like a BIOS setting... So check your BIOS and make sure that the boot-settings are correct.

When I go to Internal HDD, it automatically starts up windows.

The only settings that I can change dealing with the BIOS is the order in which they boot up.

Alright, one thing you can do is to boot from the installation CD (Ubuntu) and re-install GRUB, which is the "start-handler". It will create a new Master Boot Record and add the OS selection menu on startup.

If someone knows exactly how to get there, please explain, 'cause I don't remember really, but it's one way to go.

Thanks for the help, I will try.

I would also like to add that I have bootmagic, and this is what is displayed when I go into the configuration:

(this the link to the screenshot)

img440.imageshack.us/img440/6277/untitled19gg.jpg

I was reading that I have at the boot prompt, I have to type rescue, then bash, then grub-install/dev/hda to reinstall GRUB.

only problem is, when I type rescue, I get an error saying that it could not find the kernel image rescue??


Edit: I fixed it. I forgot to look in wiki Ubuntu, where I found the solution:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phbc50/howto...ght=%28grub%29

Perfect, so everything works by now?

Yeah, until I put windows to hibernate(when I close my laptop lid) - once I restarted the computer to get on Ubuntu, the GRUB didn't pop up with the OS selection - so I had to reinstall the GRUB again...so I guess I have to restart or shut down Windows from now on.

Hmm, weird... I'm afraid I don't have any solution to that

Perhaps Windows is yet again changing the MBR to resume rather than reboot. Windows refuses to recognize the existence of another OS -- it just doesn't play nice like Linux.

Oh well...I'm starting to use Ubuntu more and Windows less.

yeah...it makes one wonder which OS is superior: the one that refuses to recognize the existance of another OS or the OS that makes it really easy to work with another OS (as far as booting goes...let's not talk NTFS)?? i'm going with linux...and yeah...i'm on kubuntu more than x64 or vista beta2... : )

One solution: Don't use W!ndows. then you'll never have to worry about the MBR getting changed FYI, Linux supports writing to NTFS now (as of kernel v2.6.15).

NTFS is not fully supported yet, you can write to an already existing file, aslong as the file size stays the same, and you can (I think) delete files (with a chance of damaging the fs). But you can not create a new file.