ubuntu cd boot menu fails

[keyser]

Uninstall grub from mbr? (edited: ubuntu cd boot menu fails)

hi,

i like the whole open idea behind linux so thought i'd check it out.. however i downloaded the ubuntu amd64 iso, burnt, booted, get to the option to run from cd or install and it displays some wierd box made out of chars |_ etc with a bunch of numbers/code in. pressing a key this clears the screen to a promt.. i guess i'll try again with x86 version, plus remote chance the iso was damaged during dling (?)

was wondering if linux is more fussy with overclocking (should i set bios stuff to default etc) ?

thanks for any help =)

 

[Hate]

I would recommend the 32bit version if you are a learner, the 64 bit version doesn't have as much precompiled stuff.

 

[keyser]

i dled ubuntu and thought i'd try installing (i'd created 10gb partition in windows earlier).. it finished installing, but on reboot the grub dualboot thing didn't work - ubuntu didn't load and neither does xp (sits there with 'starting up...' or something and flashing _ ..anyway, i want out i'll try linux on a test box another time.

i have backups of everything on other drive and i'm even willing to fisk /mbr to fix it - the only problem is i don't have a floppy drive (against religion etc) soo i think i either need to get to prompt from xp setup cd (how?) or get my dad/mate to create a bootable cd/dvd with fdisk on... will this work?

oh and xp setup allows me to delete/create partitions but doesn't like any partitions i create on that drive.. setup says 'this disk does not contain a windows xp-compatible partition' ! argh

(should this now be moved to windows forum) or can the ubuntu live cd help me out somehow.. and if not,why not?!

 

[squiffy]

I've had the same problems with 6.10 64bit, on two systems the boot loading screen is black & white and garbled. Booting off 6.10 32 bit works ok.

6.06 64bit was fine also. I guess 64bit version 6.10 is broke.

So try 6.10 32bit and 6.06 64bit.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

(should this now be moved to windows forum) or can the ubuntu live cd help me out somehow.. and if not,why not?!

Sure it can. Boot up the CD and when it's up open a terminal window and enter

sudo gparted

this will fire up the partitioning tool. Use this to format the partitions that windows doesn't like to something it does like, such as FAT32. From the Windows formatter you can format those partitions NTFS if you don't want to use FAT32.

 

[keyser]

ung conn timed out typing reply.. short version:
fixed with windows xp + R + fixmbr

but before that i found Mandriva 2007 free on linux format dvd and installed that and played around for a few days and liked that. i'll try linux again over xmas, with mandriva or ubuntu.

sorry it takes days to reply but i'm without net atm! in net cafe