On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 18:43 +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:50:09 +0000, [email protected] said: > > > on boot I got the message 'No > > Operating System' or something of that ilk > > A suggestion: when you see an error message that you would like help on, > write down what it is. My first reaction (being a Grumpy Old Man) is that > if you can't be bothered to even tell us what the problem is, I can't be > bothered to try to help. Fortunately, others are not so cold and heartless. > > Good luck...
You are absolutely right Keith, but once one is in the situation without a system to work on, it's not easy. The Error Message was actually "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press Enter". Try as I might with grub-repair and re-installing XP on the first partition I couldn't get anywhere. I pulled the disk and discovered the jumper in a slot for "master disk, slave disk present". I have not seen this jumper position before (except probably when I first installed the disk), so changed it to "Master (single disk)" and now am up and running, having re-installed XP, and then re-installed Kubuntu, and now in the middle of all the Kubuntu updates. Cheers all, peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
