[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Jan Kasiak]

I think you have to find a livecd....and somehow fix grub in mbr and/or fix
grub files on his C:/ drive. If he has more than one hard drive/partition
it could be selecting the wrong one. Not sure at which point its erroring.

-Jan
(from phone)
On Dec 17, 2011 10:15 PM, "Hanne Paine" <paine.hanne at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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