Dual Booting

Hello all,
I have a problem, I have recently installed Windows 7 on my Maxtor 160GB HDD, and Ubuntu 9.04 on my Western Digital 500GB HDD, the problem is that in order to boot to ubuntu I have to reboot to BIOS and switch boot priority from the 160 to the 500. I sthere anyway to create a menu so I can boot to each OS without entering the BIOS, I don't want to partition the Hard Drives.


Thank You

grub can boot linux and windose easily and reliably as long as windose doesn't do anything stupid to mess it up Like overwriting your MBR without asking and destroying partitions from "enemy" operating systems

Good luck

In order to sum up linux_0's very valid answers:

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader, which replaced LILO) can be installed on the Master Boot Record of your booting hard disk drive (the one configured in BIOS as the primary boot disk).

GRUB's configuration file for Ubuntu is /boot/grub/menu.lst; add linux_0's code to it (you can replace 'title Other' with 'title Windows' if you want), and look for the 'timeout' setting: change it to 10, so as to have time to choose... It's a good idea to backup that file first anyway.

There may also be a setting saying that the boot menu shouldn't be shown until the Esc key is pressed, configure it so that the menu is always shown (there are several helpful comments in the Ubuntu version of menu.lst, read them carefully).