[ale] error booting XP after dual boot install of Ubuntu 7.10

[Jim Kinney]

Welcome to the dark side, Daniel.

Mwahahahahaha!

Usually, the best route to do the dual boot is to install windows to a
pre-shrunken partiton and then do the Linux install.  There are some tools
that will shrink the existing blunders XP crap (Linux based, of course) but
there are limits based on where the bastards from Redmond park the
"immovable bits" used to key your system into the borg main collective (they
are the green strips on the defrag tool in blunders).

That said, there is some magic foo required in the grub settings to boot
windows and I don't have a dual boot box to pull it from any more. Google up
"dual boot grub". This one looks like a Ubuntu tutorial on the needed
steps.:
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed_first.htm

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:

> James Taylor wrote:
> > It's not open source, but I'd recommend Moneydance.  I guess it
> > depends on how extensively he uses the advanced features. -jt
> >
> Actually, he says the data he entered will only take him a few minutes
> to reenter, seems like he just started using it, so I downloaded GNUCash
> and we're playing with it now, and he says it looks great.
>
> Would still like to know how I FU'd his Win XP...should I have used a
> (groan) windows partitioner (e.g. PartitionMagic) to partition his win
> NTFS drive first, then installed Ubuntu?  May have to try this again
> sometime...
>
> Daniel
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