i downloaded the iso for 9.10 and md5sum'd it (perfect) then burned it and booted and ran check disk for errors (also perfect) i then set up a partition in vista by following the exact instructions from the ubuntu forums (and allocated 48GB for ubuntu) and tried to install. it went fine for a while, then showed an error and shut down and rebooted from the live cd again.
so this is my brothers pc and i finally convinced him to try out ubuntu and went about installing it...
he did have windows 7 and xp installed (with 4 partitions, win7, documents partition, win xp and another partition which called itself extended partition.
so ubuntu installed and then when i rebooted on grub it first showed ubuntu or "windows vista boot repair" (which was the original os when
Two (Vaio) laptops, Vista/Quantal on one, Windows 7/Quantal on the other, Quantal on both fully updated as of a few minutes ago. Both have Windows recovery partitions on sda1 and boot into Windows itself from sda2. (7 has the usual separate small boot partition on sda2).
Apart from Quantal, the grub menu on the Vista machine only has an entry for the recovery partition, not for Vista itself.
Hi
I'm having a problem getting grub to detect my XP partition.
Original configuration:-
Hard drive partitioned with primary partitions (Vista and Vista restore) and an extended partition for data
did not want anything to do with Vista so
I Installed XP in extended partition
Vista boot manager offered Vista or XP
All worked for years
Decided to remove Vista and dual boot with Ubuntu
I have a dual boot system Vista and Ubuntu.
My machine has 2 separate physical disks, one for each OS. Windows (sda) and Ubuntu Linux (sdb). My Windows disk had "Vista Business x64" and the linux disk has Ubuntu 12.04. I recently upgraded Vista to "Win 7 Pro x64" and as expected, it screwed with the MBR and GRUB was not coming up at boot up time.
I have a computer with windows 7, windows xp, and ubuntu. The problem is I can't boot xp. Whenever I try, I get a black screen. I would like to be able to boot from xp, 7, or ubuntu from grub
Here is what I have done:
1) Installed XP
2) Used gparted to shrink xp partition and installed ubuntu
3) Used gparted to shirnk xp partition and installed windows 7
after trying Ubuntu from Live CD, I've decided to install it:
I partitioned the HD where my Vista installation is by shrinking it on Vista, and I've left the space empty without formatting it; then I've used the live CD to install Ubuntu (12.04), which seemed to complete fine.
At boot no GRUB requester happens and Vista boots regularly, whereas from its disk management tool the empty space I had
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1595217 for boot repair report ala Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (now running Ubuntu on DVD)
Wife's CPU (yup, I'm not in trouble yet as she doesn't know) is Vista with 10 gigs of pictures on it, and I wanted to wean her off Vista.
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