Installed Ubuntu 710 on desktop with Windows dualboot on one hard drive and installed linux on the other and when rebooting after install the PC goes straight to windows boot menu...not seeing linux boot menu

Please try to explain your disk and partion order better.
You have two disk and on first you have Windows and on second Ubuntu? Am I rigth?

No, first disk is Vista and the second is backup. I am trying to install Linux on a separate USB external disk.

did you install ubuntu or vista first? Because if you installed ubuntu first and then vista the ubuntu boot loader has been "overruled" by the vista boot loader and you have to enable the GRUB again.

The first hard drive has a dual boot of Win2000 and XP and the second drive has only the install of Ubuntu 7.10 No boot menu shows except for the windows boot menu at start up. Windows sees that there is a new partition on the second drive so I know it is there.

Vojtěch Trefný <email address hidden> wrote: Your question #22639 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/22639

    Status: Open => Needs information

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Please try to explain your disk and partion order better.
You have two disk and on first you have Windows and on second Ubuntu? Am I rigth?

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Thanks Vojtěch Trefný, that solved my question.

Thank you very much for your help...now working much better. I was booting from first disk and switched setting in bios to boot from second drive with linux installed on it.