<quote who="Brad Kowalczyk"> > Couple of questions: > 1. I got my ubuntu cd's the the other day (BTW the live cd did not work > for me, seemed to die at X startup, just a black screen) and promptly > did an install onto a vacant partition on my HD. Everything ran > smoothly, detected all my hardware and my XP installation. However > despite XP being on the grub boot list it now refuses to boot. I > couldn't browse my XP partition with ubuntu (can you? I couldn't find > it) so I threw in Lindows live cd and all my windows data seems intact. > So question is does anyone know how I may be able to fix this XP boot > problem? I installed FC3 over ubuntu hoping that it might somehow fix > the problem but no luck...
What is the symptom of XP failing to boot? Is it getting anywhere, or hanging as soon as it starts to load the NT boot loader? If so, it's possibly the problem I ran into where the partition manager screwed up the drive geometry written into the partition table. Linux recognises the mismatch and continues, where XP dies and none of the XP recovery mechanisms fix it. If that's it, it can be repaired - just don't go running any XP 'fix boot' or XP re-installations. Apparently Fedora Core used to have the same problem, but I can't find the bug report right now. It had to do with writing an incorrect drive geometry description to the partition table. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned marriage too, because it obviously is against the remunerative interests of prostitutes - Bruce Perens -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
