[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

Okay, I'm in the BIOS, but I have zero idea what I'm doing. I've never
owned a PC, which is kind of embarrassing. Now what? (No one appears to be
on the IRC)

On 17 December 2011 22:31, Hanne Paine <paine.hanne at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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