[mgaines2]

Yesterday, I installed CrunchBang Linux onto my desktop (everything went fine). After it installed and rebooted from my hard drive, that worked. But today, I went to go boot it and I got a black screen that said "Grub". I dont really know why that is, or what changed between yesterday and today, but I assume that there is a problem with the Grub Boot Loader. How do I fix this?

[mgaines2]

Ok, even though nobody responded, I found the answer. The Windows 8 bootloader was overwriting the GRUB bootloader. To fix this, you need the switch the SATA cables going to your two hard drives to make Linux the priority over Windows.

[no2pencil]

Also look up UID booting in Grub for the hard drives. With SATA dynamically addressing the drives (over IDE's master/slave concept) Grub can get confused as to where it is located. I had this issue with my Linux virus scanning machine I setup in my shop. Any USB or SATA attached drives would dynamically become SDA & push the IDE drive to SDB & Grub would fail. Using UID in Grub, the root on SDB is now addressed to the drive rather than named & the dynamics do not interferer.