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

[Jim Kinney]

Can't you just feel the love Aaron has for Micro$haft :-)

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:00 PM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

> A possible solution that worked for me when Mafia$oft
> and their corporate minions screwed me over a couple
> of  weeks back...  (** below for the short version)
>
> I had just finished my second ever Ubuntu 7.10 dual
> boot install. The first had worked perfectly and painlessly
> with a custom built workstation that had been installed with
> a fresh dump of Xcrement Pile Pro(blems).  This second
> install was a favor to a friend with an HP consumer laptop.
> It was good fun spending a couple hours fine tuning the
> Linux side and installing oodles of Open Source software,
> but wasting several hours trying to pull the stink out of an
> pre-installed Xcrement Pile Harm Edition? ...not so much.
>
> When my friend and I got together for an unveiling of her
> new laptop I decided to boot into windblows just to show
> her that I had made it semi-functional.  At this point, the
> HP / Compaq re-crapify program proceeded to totally
> fSCk us over by blowing away Grub and the linux install
> partition.  Furious doesn't begin to approach a hint of a
> whisper of a description of my state of mind.
>
> I consulted with the windblows weenie wise guy at the
> neighborhood PC quarantine shop (where the slogan is
> "Don't let the vista blind you with rage:  upgrade to a
> fresh disk of Xcrement Pile!").  Not surprising, but he
> couldn't provide any new avenues for restoring the
> partitions so I just went back to square one.
>
> **
> I rebooted to the Ubuntu Live CD and re-ran the install.
> THIS TIME I chose to manually repartition the drive. I left
> the existing (previously resized and still in tact) windblows
> partition alone, but REMOVED the special "re-crapify"
> partition and expanded the Linux Ext 3 allocation to
> include that previously wasted disk space.  I believe
> the re-recapify partition also holds the (re-crapifying
> software).
>
> After proceeding with the rest of the Ubuntu installation, I
> had a new /boot and Grub config where both systems would
> start up without problems. I repeated the fun part of fine
> tuning the Linux side and installing oodles of freedom friendly
> software and delivered the machine to my friend.
> **
>
> The lesson is that, when installing Linux as a Dual Boot on a
> consumer machine that has been pre-installed with Mafia$oft,
> you should manually partition the drive and OVERWRITE ANY
> KIND OF RE-CRAPIFY PARTITION as a critical early step in
> the install.
>
> My friend has had the machine for week a now.  We had to
> forgo the Linux training until we find time, but she told me she
> still hasn't wanted or needed to boot into windoze yet. For any
> future shared install of Ubuntu or Linux I want to constrict
> Mafia$oft to strictly being accessable as a virtual machine
> under the Linux boot -- provide some REAL virus protection.
>
> To that end, I noticed that the commercial Parallels product
> that's become popular for setting up both Linux and M$ VM's
> on Intel Mac's is now promoting a dedicated Linux version
> -- a 30 day trial install is available from the Ubuntu Software
> repositories, but purchase cost is about $70.  There is also
> a free virtualization package available in the Ubuntu repository,
> and I'd be curious if anyone here has explored that with Gutsy.
>
> peace
> aaron
>  .
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:00, Daniel Howard wrote:
> > Well, I tried to do my first dual boot install tonite on my dad's Win XP
> > machine, and although the GRUB loader works fine and boots into Ubuntu
> > just fine, and sees the Win XP and HP Recovery partitions just fine,
> > when I select Windows XP to boot to, it reports Disk Error, hit
> > CTL-ALT-DEL to reboot.  I can boot into the HP recovery partition, and
> > can run the recovery, but it then wipes out the GRUB loader and still
> > won't boot into windows.  I reinstalled Ubuntu, and I'm back to square
> > one: I can boot Ubuntu and see Windows partitions, but can't boot into
> XP.
> >
> > Could my repartitioning of my drive during Ubuntu install have altered
> > the hd(0,0) location specified for Windows XP, and hence the GRUB loader
> > can't find the location of XP?  How can I find where Ubuntu's
> > repartitioner put it and then do I change the boot.ini file in the
> > Windows XP partition (seen just fine by Ubuntu) or the menu.lst file of
> > the GRUB loader?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Daniel
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Howard
> > President and CEO
> > Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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