I should have known better….
Well, once I decided on Ubuntu, it was time to install it. So, I have a desktop with 2 hard drives. The primary (hda) has 80GB and the secondary (hdb) has 20GB.
So, I moved some stuff around and freed up about 4GB of the secondary drive. Here is where things went a bit off! I installed Ubuntu to this drive, but what I hadn’t thought about was how the boot loader would work. Well, the answer is, not so well! So the master boot record (MBR) was updated to use GRUB, but unfortunately, it wanted to boot from the secondary drive which apparently doesn’t work very well. After the install, I rebooted, and vioila, no operating system found! The good news is that I was able to fix this problem and it didn’t even require the Windows boot cd!