Kunbuntu with KDE 4 what a pile of crap

PhilGQ · 14 Jun 2008 at 17:13

I have installed this on my second hard drive and for some reason its decided to put its bootloader on the first hard disk. I now have an old bootloader for ubuntu which doesn't work as the OS has been deleted on the second hard disk and a bootloader for Kubuntu on the first disk.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this without erasing the Windows partition on that disk. I am getting rid of Kubuntu because it a terrible distro. So I don't need to able to boot into it. Its back to boring safe Gnome for me.

mortals · 14 Jun 2008 at 17:43

If you want to remove grub and put the windows xp MBR back on, boot off of a windows xp cd and press "R" for windows restoration console, select the windows install & enter the administrator password.
Enter the command: "FIXMBR" at the input prompt and confirm the next question with a "Y".

Or if you have a DOS bootdisk do "fdisk /mbr"

PhilGQ · 14 Jun 2008 at 18:10

I do have an xp disk, but I have Vista on the PC, should it still work?

I have tried booting from the vista disk but in the repair section it asks me to pick a Vista installation and doesn't list any. It give me a chance to load a driver for the hard disk but I don't have one its a just a standard SATA disk.

Monkeynut · 14 Jun 2008 at 18:38

If you have Ubuntu and Kubuntu on separate partitions you don't need to, KDE and GNOME can co-exist on the same linux installation.

PhilGQ · 14 Jun 2008 at 18:51

Monkeynut said:
If you have Ubuntu and Kubuntu on separate partitions you don't need to, KDE and GNOME can co-exist on the same linux installation.

I had Ubuntu on my second hard disk with its bootloader on that disk, I erased it to put on kubuntu, but kubuntu decided it would rather not replace the Ubuntu Grub but install its own on the other disk with vista.

NicNac · 14 Jun 2008 at 21:36

Ubuntu and Kubuntu are the same thing just different wm's in fact they are interchangeable e.g meaning install ubuntu and install stuff for kde turning it into Kubuntu.

memyselfandi · 14 Jun 2008 at 22:21

PhilGQ said:
I do have an xp disk, but I have Vista on the PC, should it still work?

I have tried booting from the vista disk but in the repair section it asks me to pick a Vista installation and doesn't list any. It give me a chance to load a driver for the hard disk but I don't have one its a just a standard SATA disk.

You don't want to repair the copy of Vista when booted off the Vista CD you want to open a recovery console. You can then rewrite the MBR using the appropriate commands. I.e. bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot

see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

One of my colleagues had to do this last Thursday to get rid of a broken grub install and get back into Vista on his laptop.

That should get Vista working again then you can look at setting up dual-booting again

edit: hmmmm if it can't see Vista is there at all (but can see the disk) are you sure Kubuntu hasn't done something more drastic to it ...

PhilGQ · 14 Jun 2008 at 22:44

memyselfandi said:
You don't want to repair the copy of Vista when booted off the Vista CD you want to open a recovery console. You can then rewrite the MBR using the appropriate commands. I.e. bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot

I found that trick on another site and it didn't work because I missed out the space between bootrec and /

That what I call a numpty mistake.

Its working again now, thanks very much for all the info guys.