I would do as you ask if I knew where that log was. I have searched for with G_Desktop and XP's own search device. If it's gotta be found by KUBUNTU, then that's gonna be a problem.
Let me include a c/p of this problem I am having that I posted on a techsite the other day so you can get a good idea what's happening: Part #1, I will devote a 5.1g hdd on my eid/card to the install and make it dual-boot with XP-Pro. This puts 10 hdds on this system...gotta be careful of overloading the PSU. I tried to install Kubuntu on it, but GRUB failed to install 6 times.....I sent a log to Kubuntu research/bug_reports and they will get back to me...but I think it looks like it might be better to install that version after I get some time in the Linux environment. For now, I think I'll sit on Kubuntu, and just run Knoppix here. Now I have two puters running Linux stuff on dual-boots. I like them both, but yes, there's a difference with the processor speeds. Even though I am running right now on a live-disc for Kubuntu, it is a lot faster on this Enermax/SOYO unit, as compared to the Dell/P III with the full install. I think I have to change the font defaults in the both of them though...this letters are 'way too small. BTW: the Dell while in XP cannot see the hdb where Mepis is installed. I wonder if that's gonna be the case here too on Kubuntu. My vid card here (NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 is running just fine, although there was a slight shift in the centering of the screen that was very easy to correct here...it'll probably be the other way when I boot XP too. So far, I am very happy with both of these Linux systems...they are intuitive unless the sound card here is a little confusing too...I will see later when I do the install. I recommend that all who have shied away from either of these distros (more L-Talk) to at least *try* the live-cd versions that can be downloaded from places on the net. You won't be sorry. Part #2 I've decided that Knoppix Live! is not the program I like. It appears to be limited by my inspection, and since I don't want to have this puter (Enermax/SOYO) with *no* XP install as a dual-boot with it, I will perhaps dismiss it entirely. I am willing to mail my second copy of the Knoppix-Live! cd if anyone wants it.....I only need one copy for archive files. Running it on live version is ok, but not what I want to do. Since I want to have the duality factor as a primary consideration, I hope my bug report to Kubuntu gets some assist. I like the way Kubuntu looks and feels as a "live", and want to install it as a dual-boot if I can get the GRUB problem straightened out. I have sent a bug report to Kubuntu...let's hope they respond soon. I really want to run Kubuntu..... Part #3 *If Jen or someone (Chill?) is looking on, I need to know what they think about my using the 5.1g hdd on an eide expansion card for the root of Kubuntu...is this the reason why I cannot get GRUB to install? I've removed all the RAID stuff and gone to JBODS, and even pulled a few hdds outta the tower too. I am running XP on root C drive, data on d and h, and I've set aside k for Linux/Kubuntu. K runs thru an ULTRA expansion card plugged into the mobo. I don't get any errors on the install until I hit the GRUB device. I also see during the boot to Kubuntu that there's no affirmation of PCMCIA or COMMON UNIX PRINT SYST PUPSD getting installed. They never get the blue check-mark telling me they are installed, in case that really means anything. *Part #4 At part 6 of 6 during the installation GRUB failed to install 4 times now and then aborted the installation of the rest of KUBUNTU, dumping me back into XP. That's why I am wondering if the problem is accessing the ultra drive on k position. If Kubuntu is not able to work from that hdd position (K), as in thru the expansion card, then I may have to physically move some of the drives around. Right now I have K drive cleaned and ready for KUBUNTU install, but lost F thru I. In fact, KUBUNTU formatted the K drive for me after I had moved some files off it from XP. The boot splash sees all the drives ok, just not when I get to windows or even KNOPPIX/LIVE! I need to know what GRUB has to do...is it a *directory* to find KUBUNTU when I boot-up or is it the actual preliminary *installer program* for KUBUNTU? If I need to allow GRUB to install everything on Window's root drive, then I will, but I am afraid now of corrupting the whole C drive. C is a 40g root for XP and my security prgms right now. Do I need to allow KUBUNTU to install on the same drive as XP's root? Or is there just a small .exe-type prgm on the root drive that then toggles K? I told KUBUNTU to install on K, but for some unknown reason it died trying....but I don't know what failed: writing to K or putting the pointer to K on C (root) drive. I have the following drives physically installed: - C= 40g Root for XP, still accessable D= 200g data NTFS, still accessable E= 200g data NTFS, still accessable F= 200g data NTFS unseen now G= 200g data NTFS unseen now H= 200g data NTFS unseen now I= 200g data NTFS unseen now J= 200g Ultra data NTFS on EIDE card, still accessable K= 200g Ultra now formatted to FAT32 by KUBUNTU on EIDE card, empty Drives C thru K were on JBOD with J and K plugged onto the EIDE card installed on MOBO KUBUNTU sees all the drives ok and reassigns them letters hda thru hdi; XP has lost F thru I; boot/splash see them all. Part #5 Quote: Originally Posted by *FoxyMX* Joe, I hope you don't mind me saying so but I really do think you are playing with fire with your adventures into dual booting Linux with Windows. After getting my fingers burnt upgrading Fedora Core 1 to Core 2 and losing my Windows partition I vowed to never again play with dual booting and got a removable caddy system as Jen mentioned in her last post. That way both Linux and Windows can have their own hard drives and do not need to dual boot. I kept my data on a FAT 32 partition on a third, fixed hard drive so that both Linux and Windows could access those files. That system worked well and I had no fear of my Windows installation getting trashed. Thanks..and I have also come to the same conclusion...although my DELL P III seems happy with the dual-boot XP and Meppis. This JBOD/SOYO Dragon Ultra Platinum w/Athlon XP setup seems to be too hard for L-based systems to comprehend. Remember that they say it will dual-boot with full serviceability on both systems. Maybe *it's* the source of the problem. Thankfully, there wasn't much that I could not live without on those drives anyway...now if it screwed up my videos and music files...I'D BE HOPPING!!! The worst loss was the Audacity files that I never got converted to MP3's anyway...I still cannot figure that one out. OH, and I also had the pixs of all the puters from youse guys on one of those drives too..but I can just go back to the upload site and re-get them. I was just saving those drives for more and more videos. It's a real shame too that the dual-boot with KUBUNTU won't work well. I totally like the feel and visuals of it. In the short time I tried it live, I was very impressed. Not holding Linux things as responsible for any losses...it would even be foolish to try to install XP with 2000 too... though I know it can be done, but not be me. Gotta go into the corner and think for a while now. :( Like I said, I don't know where the wheels fell off...and I am kinda afraid to let L-types have access to any more of my hdds...I am beginning to lose a lot of stuff that I don't want to lose. On 6/19/06, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you please attach /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and > /var/log/partman to this bug, using the "Add Attachment" link on the > bug's web page? Thanks in advance. > > ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) > Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info > > -- > grub failed to install > https://launchpad.net/bugs/50111 > -- Joe Vreeland ----- Be really good to your family and friends. You never know when you are going to need them to empty your bedpan. -- grub failed to install https://launchpad.net/bugs/50111 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
