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| 596406 | 2007-09-30 07:46:00 | Dear all. I booted into Ubuntu for about 5 minutes. After that, I restarted the whole machine and selected to boot Windows XP Professional. However, the screen just displays (and wouldn't change) "Starting up..." when I have selected Windows under the dual boot menu. Any help is appreciated. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 596407 | 2007-09-30 09:23:00 | Was this just after an install of Ubuntu or has the dual boot system been working? | johnd (85) | ||
| 596408 | 2007-10-01 07:56:00 | Was this just after an install of Ubuntu or has the dual boot system been working? Hey John. The dual boot system has been working, but it failed me yesterday night. Anyway, I have been backing-up all my files in XP via Ubuntu, then do a clean reformat. It is rather annoying that some files when copied over to my USB stick and later transferred to my home computer, they turn out to be 0KB in size. :@ |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 596409 | 2007-10-01 08:07:00 | If you reinstall Windows it will wipe out Ubuntu's bootloader. What you could try is to run XPs recovery console to fixmbr. You will then need to run the Live Ubuntu disk to access Linux and reinstall GRUB (the bootloader) again. Actually, Ubuntu may have a repair/recovery mode when booted from the CD?? One of the Ubuntu users might be able to confirm this. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 596410 | 2007-10-01 08:21:00 | It is rather unusual in my experience for a working setup of GRUB to stop working so I don't know what might cause this! I suggest you check your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. If it looks fine, then reinstall - you will be able to do this via the GUI but from the CLI the command is: grub-install /dev/hda (assuming PATA and the drive is the first one - replace with sda if SATA I believe - all my PCs are old and are PATA). |
johnd (85) | ||
| 596411 | 2007-10-01 17:59:00 | If you reinstall Windows it will wipe out Ubuntu's bootloader . What you could try is to run XPs recovery console to fixmbr . You will then need to run the Live Ubuntu disk to access Linux and reinstall GRUB (the bootloader) again . Actually, Ubuntu may have a repair/recovery mode when booted from the CD?? One of the Ubuntu users might be able to confirm this . Hi Jen . Bletch has suggested a similar idea to yours last week on how to solve this complication . However, I have long to wipe out everything from my HDD and rebuild from scratch as I had made a mistake last time creating 5 partitions (and living with it!) on my 90GB HDD . :stare: On top of that, being a Linux n00b, I haven't got much experience working with the Terminal . . . so command input might not seem that easy from my perspective . :blush: Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 596412 | 2007-10-01 18:04:00 | Hi Jen . Bletch has suggested a similar idea to yours last week on how to solve this complication . However, I have long to wipe out everything from my HDD and rebuild from scratch as I had made a mistake last time creating 5 partitions (and living with it!) on my 90GB HDD . :stare: On top of that, being a Linux n00b, I haven't got much experience working with the Terminal . . . so command input might not seem that easy from my perspective . :blush: Cheers :)Jens suggestion was to run the command from the Windows command line, not Linux (fixmbr is an XP 'DOS' command) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 596413 | 2007-10-01 20:17:00 | Jens suggestion was to run the command from the Windows command line, not Linux (fixmbr is an XP 'DOS' command)Aaah, but installing or repairing grub is a task for the Linux command-line. I also recommended a repair install of XP - if it's getting to the 'starting up' point, then the bootloader is not at fault. As repairing XP nukes the boot sector, it requires re-writing grub onto it (contrary to popular belief, this is not the same thing as reinstalling grub!) |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 596414 | 2007-10-02 04:14:00 | Aaah, but installing or repairing grub is a task for the Linux command-line. I also recommended a repair install of XP - if it's getting to the 'starting up' point, then the bootloader is not at fault. As repairing XP nukes the boot sector, it requires re-writing grub onto it (contrary to popular belief, this is not the same thing as reinstalling grub!)True. I do however fail to see how 'fixmbr' (in windows command line) is harder than 'grub-install /dev/hda' (in linux command line). Other than the extra typing of course |
Myth (110) | ||
| 596415 | 2007-10-03 04:19:00 | While I am looking for the time to do a clean reformat, could someone please explain to me this section of the web page on how to configure the modem? ->gentoo-wiki.com For starters, what is "/etc/wvdial.conf"? Do I need to download an slmodem? It may be the wrong site for me to checkout, but I suppose Gentoo is built similarly to Ubuntu? A n00b question, I know. :p |
Renmoo (66) | ||
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