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Booting Ubuntu 11.10 brings GRUB CLI

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http://askubuntu.com – I'm a novice in the Linux world. Windows 7 is my primary OS. Trying to run Ubuntu with Windows. Failed so far. I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a second hard disk. I chose second hard disk's MBR to store boot record for Ubuntu. So /dev/sda contains Windows bootloader and /dev/sdb contains Ubuntu bootloader (I think). The installation went without any problem. I restarted the PC and it booted to Windows. I used EasyBCD to add a new entry for Ubuntu. Then I restarted the PC and an OS selection menu appeared. I selected Ubuntu from the list. Instead of loading Ubuntu, the GRUB Command Line In (HowTos)

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