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ubuntu not booting

Asked by ops

Hi
One of pc has dual boot: windows xp with ubuntu 8.04. I am not able to boot ubuntu. when pc is turned on it directly goes to xp. The boot menu from which i can select ubuntu does not appear. What should i do?

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Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#1

Did you install Ubuntu first and then Windows?

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ankit (ankitguptajpr) said : 		#2

while installing ubuntu you have not set the grub loader time due to which it has take grub loading time to 0 seconds so now u have to install it again and this time be carefull of entering grub loading time
Ankit Gupta

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ops (dr7oms) said : 		#3

window was installled first. I could get grub boot menu for couple of month. something happened and grub boot menu disappeared. How can i re install grub

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Wim (launchpad-xs4all) said : 		#4

Ops,

Perhaps you did a recover-action in windows; that action restores the Windows-MBR which start Windows direct after booting...

Do you (still) have a Ubuntu-08.04 CD rom?!?
If Yes, i suggest to boot from that CD, go to Recovery_Mode and re-install grub using the command:

   grub-install --no-floppy

Please let us know how we can help you and what actions you can take without help.

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Best Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#5

If you need more detailed instructions and some troubleshooting, you can go to:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
Hope this helps, let me know.

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ops (dr7oms) said : 		#6

Thanks Ariel Cabral, that solved my question.