A glitch after Ubuntu Installation. Cannot boot Ubuntu

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Published on 2011-01-23T08:11:11Z Indexed on 2011/02/11 15:33 UTC
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I am trying to create a dual boot of Ubuntu 10.10 with Windows 7. My hard disk allocation were as follows:

Windows 7  NTFS       100 GB
/boot      EXT4       200 MB
SWAP       LINUX SWAP   4 GB
/          EXT4        46 GB

After installation is complete, instead of getting the boot screen of Ubuntu, it directly boots from windows 7 without asking anything.

What is wrong? I run the Live Cd again using USB drive and I see that the \boot, and \ are occupied with most likely Ubuntu data.

Now How do i point my Laptop to point to Ubuntu Boot instead of Windows Boot

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