Hi all, Today i was installing Lucid in a system.The system in which I installed Lucid was in a Computer institute. It had RHEL before. What had happened was that once someone changed the root password of RHEL system. I changed the root password by using "Single User Mode". But after that the system started giving problem and took a long time to boot. So i decided to install Lucid in it. After inserting Lucid CD for installation i found that it had windows XP too but it was not showing in grub. of RHEL So i decided to keep XP and dual boot with Lucid. I used "Use largest free space" option. It was installed but after reboot it gave this "grub rescue" prompt. I dint know what commands to give there. I tried some commands to see if they work like help, /h, grub, ?, etc. but not a single was a valid command.
Few days back my friend who was using windows decided to install Ubuntu as he was frustrated with virus corrupting his windows. He installed XP first in a drive and left remaining free to install Ubuntu(dual boot). But While installing Lucid after inserting the CD gave errors and we could not install Lucid. After that he installed the Lucid on entire disk(Single boot with no XP). It was successful installation. After that he tried to install XP again(he wanted to play movies and without internet he was not able to play them) on the whole disk(no dual boot). But the XP CD also gave errors. Then he installed Lucid on the entire disk again and now is a happy Lucid user. :) I want to ask is installing ubuntu(linux) dual boot with windows corrupts the hard disk? I too want to freshly install XP and ubuntu(Lucid) dual boot on my system. I have currently XP+Hardy dual boot. I am afraid to dual boot as I have many data on my drives(ntfs) and dont want to lose it. I had problems before too when trying to reinstall XP+Ubuntu was not successful and i had to delete all partition and repartition it to install. Installing on C drive and the Ubuntu n free space gave some errors and was not successful. Please give your valuable feedback... -- Regards, Manohar Bhattarai (मनोहर भट्टराई) Blogs: http://manoharbhattarai.wordpress.com/ http://manoharbhattarai.posterous.com/ http://manoharbhattarai.blogspot.com/ Microblogs: Twitter :- http://twitter.com/manoharmailme Identi.ca :- http://identi.ca/manoharbhattarai -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
