GRUB/boot loader/Ubuntu/Windows/

[spruce_capital]

This post may seem a little redundant to the old "pros", but I'm a real newbie and would like a bit of help, if someone could spare some time?
My problem is I loaded Ubuntu onto a computer with two hard drives hd0 is WindozeXP and hd1 is Ubuntu. I've tried several different boot loaders but I can't get Ubuntu to run. From searching and reading articles, I believe my problem is with GRUB, but I am unsure where to go next?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Norm

[devils casper]

hi spruce_capital,

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

where did yoy install GRUB?
unplug Ubuntu Harddisk. does Windows boot up?





Casper

[spruce_capital]

Hi devils_casper

I seems I spoke tooo soon on my Post.

I did a little more searching and read some more, and then I took the Ubuntu install CD and tried reloading to the same drive, and for some unknown reason, it worked as it was supposed to this time?

And I guess GRUB is really what you call a boot loader...I thought that I needed something like OSL2000 or such, but GRUB does that.

I do thank you for your reply. I'm an old phart, retired after having done a lot of communications type stuff, with a fair amount of Windoze applications over the years, so it'll be a bit before I get my head around Linux.

Now to figure out how to get a compiler working???

Thanks again!

[devils casper]

Now to figure out how to get a compiler working???

C compiler is a part of 'build-essential' package and its not installed by default.
open terminal and execute this

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Casper

[spruce_capital]

Hi Casper,
Thanks for the info, but......
That sounded easy enough, but by the sounds of it, I don't have what it's looking for on the computer? Here's the output from the command

sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependancy tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package build-essential

Norm

[devils casper]

is your machine connected to internet? 'build-essential' package is available in Installation CD too.
insert Installation CD and execute this

sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Casper

[spruce_capital]

is your machine connected to internet? 'build-essential' package is available in Installation CD too.
insert Installation CD and execute this

sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Casper

My guess from the info that I got back, using your commands, is that my CDrom is corrupt..or what I downloaded was corrupt? Am I correct? Thks Norm

sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[devils casper]

post the output of 'uname -a' command.
are installed version and installation CD version same?






Casper

[spruce_capital]

post the output of 'uname -a' command.
are installed version and installation CD version same?






Casper

I run uname -a and this is what came back:
When I downloaded the iso file, I believe it was Ubuntu 6.06?

Linux kids 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

I hope this was what you were looking for?
Norm

[devils casper]

Linux kids 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

this is Ubuntu 6.06 only. did you install Ubuntu from same installation CD?
boot up from CD and execute 'uname -a'. compare it with the output of installed version.
do you have internet connection?





Casper