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choose between vista on one HD & ubuntu on another HD @ boot up

Asked by Iain Macdonald

I have TWO, SEPARATE, hard drives. One has windows vista OS.The other has Ubuntu 10.4OS Newly installed today.
How can I choose which operating system to use at boot up.
According to the help documentation, I should be able to slow down the boot up, and select which device will boot the computer, thus choosing which OS will be used, also if no choice is made, a default can be assigned.to do so the suggestion is----

  system -- administration --start up manager
PROBLEM, "start up manager" does not seem to be on the list, and none of the other options seem to work.
Comments please.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

Grub gives you 10 seconds to choose as a default, but you sound like you do not even see grub. Did you install grub to the second disk? Did you change your bios boot order to boot from the second disk? If bios does not allow that, you can either switch the disks physically (check jumpers too), or reinstall grub to the windows disk (careful, grub needs a fat partition for its files, and most people prefer the switch disks option).

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

As you have both Linux and Windows, Grub propose you by default a menu to choose.
I suspect Windows was not detected at installation, which occurs sometimes.
Could you better describe issue ?
Could you reinstall bootloader (Grub) from CD: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD

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Iain Macdonald (iain987) said : 		#3

Basic problem solved Thank you.
Still do not understand why START UP MANAGER is missing from the list under system/ administrstion