On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, KLaus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > I had restored the Windows boot sector after the first failure or attempt > as you described. Even the repair of Grub doesn´t had success. > By the way: with Grub 1 I had no problems to restore. But there seems >to be no way to install Ubuntu 10.10 with Grub 1 (?). > Kind regards > Charlyms >
I know you can install grub 1 after you have a working Ubuntu system. See here for one example: <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1298932> It should be possible to skip the installation of grub 2, and then install grub 1 from a live CD, but there would be a lot of tinkering with that and it looks like you currently have bigger fish to fry. Someone with more experience can probably better advise you there. >>On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you install Windows first then you don't have a problem because >> Ubuntu will install grub which is OS agnostic. Would you agree it is more correct to say if you partition your hard drive *first* and then install Windows followed by installing Linux you avoid problems? As I describe below, repartitioning windows appears to be the cause of the "startup/boot" error I was describing previously. >>>On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:04 PM, dbneeley <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Chris, >>> I have installed Ubuntu on perhaps twenty different systems that >>> had Win XP on them, and never had to do what you describe. >>> In fact, the Windows boot overwrites the first, boot sector of the >>>drive--which is where the boot loaders such as Grub normally are. Looking into this descrepancy more, I have finally turned up a document that describes the situation I was describing: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringWindows#Resizing%20Windows%20Vista%20/%207%20Partitions> |quote| Windows 7 and Vista sometimes fail to boot after its partitions are resized outside of Windows. This is due to Windows using a very simplistic boot-loader. A regular file-system check is normal and to be expected on the first boot-up to Windows 7 or Vista because GParted programs Windows to do that by putting the 'dirty' flag in its file-system metadata. To recover from this boot problem, you can either; 1. Boot from your Windows Recovery CD and select "Startup Repair" |end quote| Apparently Windows runs a check on partition sizes which it stores in one of its boot files, and will not boot if it sees something other than what it is looking for. A proposed alternate solution was to reboot windows once to allow its own bootloader to resolve the issues before installing Grub. Although I don't know enough about the ins and outs of bootloaders and boot files to verify the accuracy of all this information, it is consistent with what I have read in the past... ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
