[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

Okay, I'll give that a shot too. Sorry for the trouble guys, you all have
permission to throw things at me during our next SBCS meeting. :P

On 17 December 2011 22:28, Jan Kasiak <j.kasiak at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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