[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Richard Yao]

Hanne,

What you need to do is BIOS dependent., but you probably don't need to
reconfigure your friend's BIOS.There is probably a key you can hit to
enter the BIOS "Boot Selection Menu", from which you can select your
CD or USB Key. It is usually F12. With that said, there are two major
BIOS companies, AMI and Phoenix. Your friend's computer will likely
use one of them. There are instructions online for how to navigate
through their menus.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bios+change+boot+order

By the way, will we have a meeting on Monday? Hanne could bring his
friend's computer to our next meeting, which might be faster than
email instructions.

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Hanne Paine <paine.hanne at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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