Stucked in boot part while installating Ubuntu

[Madhulika]

Hi,
I need some help in passing on the boot part of Ubuntu. I inserted and boot from Ubuntu's installation disc. Everything load in the form of Text Mode. Now how to provide boot sector to the setup. How to select a hard drive partition in it. I have Windows installed already on my first partition.Will this clear up everything and after installation how to configure the startup items.

[Solomon]

Towards the end of the installation, the installer will ask you where you want to install the boot system, and perhaps any startup program you want to use. The system location of boot. Your primary hard drive in the system is termed as the boot sector during Ubuntu installation. But that depends on your choice your can assign a different partition also.

[MrChris-]

Your first hard disk has a boot sector, which is automatically read by the BIOS during startup (master boot record mbr =). This is usually where you will install the program startup. If you have multiple OS boot, this is when you must declare them. Generally, the installation program will find them without your help. The drive also has a boot sector by partition. You can install by your system startup, but know that you will anyway need a boot on the mbr that will search by booting Linux.

[Calvin K]

If you have SCSI and IDE disks in the same machine, it is always the mbr of the first IDE drive to be read. So no installation on the mbr of SCSI. In addition, Linux does start on the first two discs. But IDE drives are counted first. So no Linux on a SCSI disk if you have 2 IDE drives. So, generally, accept the mbr. Also note that the installation process deletes the Windows mbr, forcing in a multiboot machine or to install Windows first, or if you install Linux first with a boot disk handy to be able to restart Linux and later restore a boot sector in multiboot.

[Lillebror]

The command to restore a mbr defaulting (or to return to DOS without Linux) - fdisk / mbr in DOS. With XP, Boot with the Windows CD. Table setup tap R to update a version of Windows already installed. At the prompt type fixmbr and that's it. Under Linux, you can restore the MBR with dd: dd if = / dev / Zero of = / dev / hda bs = 446 count = 1. To restore the boot sector of a regular partition: dd if = / dev / zero of = / dev/hdc6 bs = 512 count = 1.

[jesse]

Here are som choice of software startup. Distributions often offer several values. Like Lili which is the historical system. He needs to know physical location (sector number) startup files (kernel). Often a good choice, but refuses to boot some machine. The Grub which is much more powerful. He is able to mount file systems and look for files to start on its own (logical location, that is to say, the file name). The Loadlin which is a DOS software that knows how to boot Linux from DOS / Windows. Useful if you use Windows or especially if you do not want to touch your MBR.