Okay, so I have several drives with various operating systems on various partitions. the main drive is a 200GB sliced into a primary for Ubuntu a swap and some storage. the other drives 2x350GB are similarly chopped up, on the 200GB boot drive, it loads to a boot manager and lists ubuntu and two instances of win 7 (one from the 2nd drive and one on the 3rd drive). There is also a Windows XP partition, which is not displayed in the boot manager.
What I need is a boot on the 200gb with a boot manager that will allow me to select any of the available operating systems by selecting either the name or the partition
sda1 ext4 sda2 extended sda5 swap sda3 fat32
sdb and sdc have XP, 7 and soon 8 and some other OS variants. I simply want to be able to tell the boot manager which partition to boot from, just getting a blinking cursor when I select windows from the boot manager, even tho it seems to have detected it during install.
I did not do the "along side" option, I just created a set of partitions on the first drive for Linux, the other drives were resident in this machine and booting fine, now with the new linux drive booting first, there is some problem. Perhaps there is a better boot manager to use?