[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

That would have been my initial advice (I recently got VMWare, which I'm
enjoying as well after using both), but I wasn't around when he started
working on it. Right now, I don't even know how to get back to Windows at
all.



On 17 December 2011 22:11, Zhou Zhou <zz3599 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Or, you could just tell him/her to go with virtualbox and don't have to
> struggle through the installation altogether, while having multiple OS's in
> windows.
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Hanne Paine <paine.hanne at gmail.com>
> *To:* Linux Users Group at Stony Brook <lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:07 PM
> *Subject:* [LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?
>
> Hello Linux Heroes,
>
> Sorry to spam, but I thought I might ask your advice on a bit of an
> emergency problem. One of my friends, an XP user, had a old Ubuntu
> partition that wasn't working at all, so he deleted it and decided to
> reinstall the latest version. He downloaded Wubi and followed its
> instructions, but when he rebooted he got nothing but
>
> GRUB loading
> error: no such partition
> grub rescue >
>
> After amateurishly poking around in forums for a bit (I won't pretend to
> know anything at all about XP *or *installing Ubuntu ), I found this -
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Wubi_9.10 - which
> looks like what we've got going on here. Unfortunately, it seems to require
> rebooting from the XP install disk, which he doesn't have.
>
> Advice?
>
> Thanks so much. I hope finals are treating you all well.
>
> Hanne Paine
> President, Stony Brook Computing Society
>
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