Well I have been working on this off and on for 4 days now. It started with a rather comical problem. I couldn't get my screen resolution above 640 X 480. This ment that the installer window was too large and I couldn't click the finished button on each page. Well I sorted that out by figuring out how to move the window around (inconvenient but it worked). I went through the installer and got my 320 GB hard drive partitioned. I got the files installed and here's where the problem starts. I cannot boot from this linux I installed because I boot off of a different hard drive. I don't want to use up 20 gb for linux on my boot drive because I put all my faster games on it (CSS, BF2 etc.). Its only 74 gb so 20 would be a sizable piece.
My question is this, how can I make it so I can get the choice on startup of which OS to boot. I know that Ubuntu is supposed to automatically install grub, but I think that this is screwed up because of they way I have my hard drives set up. Any help would be greatly appriciated. I would like to become fluent in linux before I get my laptop for college, which will most likely run linux almost exclusively.
My question is this, how can I make it so I can get the choice on startup of which OS to boot. I know that Ubuntu is supposed to automatically install grub, but I think that this is screwed up because of they way I have my hard drives set up. Any help would be greatly appriciated. I would like to become fluent in linux before I get my laptop for college, which will most likely run linux almost exclusively.