[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Jan Kasiak]

Btw, theres #lugsb on freenode if you want to speak more freely :-)

-Jan
On Dec 17, 2011 10:24 PM, "Jan Kasiak" <j.kasiak at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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