Ubuntu 7.04 Mirrors

Trifid · 20 Apr 2007 at 22:34

I'm having trouble getting GRUB to work. It just goes into XP.

GeezerButler · 20 Apr 2007 at 23:38

Thumbs up for this release so far - have everything running smoothly on my old Dell Latitude C400 (PIII 866Mhz 384MB RAM). First time I've managed to get everything running including my Broadcom wireless card (a problem card for linux) and network printing to my Brother MFC440CN (driver available from Brother's linux support page http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html)

Will try the AMD64 version tomorrow on my desktop....

The Mad Rapper · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:26

A thumbs up from me too - Ubuntu is a superb distribution, it does indeed 'just work'

Una · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:42

Trifid said:
I'm having trouble getting GRUB to work. It just goes into XP.

Sure you have installed it to the MBR?

Trifid · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:55

It doesn't ask... Is there a command to reinstall it to the MBR?

Una · 21 Apr 2007 at 11:05

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html

Trifid · 21 Apr 2007 at 13:19

GRUB is installed on HD0 and the PC carries on to boot XP.

I know that Linux doesn't use the same boot loader as Windows but could it be because of the boot.ini for windows? The last time I installed Ubuntu (Drapper) I already had dual boot setup with 2 windows OS.

I've had an idea. I have my Storage drive in Sata1 (SDB) and my OS drive (with windows and Ubuntu installed) on Sata3 (SDA) (nothing in sata 2 and 4) Could this be causing problems? Well I think it is what's causing them.

Should I reinstall GRUB to HD1? Or is the HD2?

Well I went with HD1 and got GRUB. Hurrah! But it now gives me error 22, no such partition exists. Plus Windows says NTLDR is missing (I know how to remove grub to get XP working though!)