Ubuntu 7.04 and XP Pro Dual Boot Issues
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:17 pm
Hello,
So I've been attempting to dual boot XP Pro and Ubuntu 7.04, following various tutorials that have not yet been successful. Both drives are internal. The Master on this system is a 250 GB IDE drive, and the Slave is a 200 GB SCSI drive. There is one gig of RAM, and a 64 bit AMD Athlon processor.
I've tried the following steps in an attempt to have a working Ubuntu and XP:
1. XP Master Drive, Ubuntu Slave Drive, no other configuration - this was done by selecting use entire slave drive in the install dialogue.
2. Unplug XP drive, install Ubuntu on slave drive, using entire drive, replug Ubuntu slave drive
3. XP Master Drive, Ubuntu Slave Drive using entire drive, instructing Ubuntu to put GRUB onto the Master
4. Partition master drive with first partition NTFS and XP, second partition Fat32 and Ubuntu, use slave drive for storage
All of these attempts have resulted in XP being unable to boot. I suspect at least some of it has been due to Ubuntu being unable to boot, as well, but I can't verify that. Fixmbr has never worked, bootcfg has never worked, and the GRUB CD hasn't worked. Formatting both drives again and reinstalling Windows has been the only thing thus far that has resulted in a boot of anything. With the GBUB CD, I've tried all the various options that are under GNU/Linux in an attempt to boot Ubuntu after it has been installed. GRUB does recognize that Ubuntu is present, but it is always unable to boot it or create the MBR.
When running the Ubuntu installer, it once gave me an error related to creating the user, and then it appeared to continue installing, but didn't work. Other times, it has gone through the install process, and then appeared to finish. It didn't ask me to reboot, though.
Does anyone have recommendations for something that can help, and that can hopefully avoid having to format the working Windows drive again? I've run the Ubuntu CD through the disk checker on the startup screen, and it apparently doesn't have any errors.
Oh, I don't have a floppy drive at this time, if that's relevant at all. Currently, I have once again reinstalled Windows on the Master drive. I wouldn't be terribly against reformatting the Master if necessary, as I haven't reinstalled all my backups yet. I do have backups, though, of important data.
Thanks for any help.
Jon
So I've been attempting to dual boot XP Pro and Ubuntu 7.04, following various tutorials that have not yet been successful. Both drives are internal. The Master on this system is a 250 GB IDE drive, and the Slave is a 200 GB SCSI drive. There is one gig of RAM, and a 64 bit AMD Athlon processor.
I've tried the following steps in an attempt to have a working Ubuntu and XP:
1. XP Master Drive, Ubuntu Slave Drive, no other configuration - this was done by selecting use entire slave drive in the install dialogue.
2. Unplug XP drive, install Ubuntu on slave drive, using entire drive, replug Ubuntu slave drive
3. XP Master Drive, Ubuntu Slave Drive using entire drive, instructing Ubuntu to put GRUB onto the Master
4. Partition master drive with first partition NTFS and XP, second partition Fat32 and Ubuntu, use slave drive for storage
All of these attempts have resulted in XP being unable to boot. I suspect at least some of it has been due to Ubuntu being unable to boot, as well, but I can't verify that. Fixmbr has never worked, bootcfg has never worked, and the GRUB CD hasn't worked. Formatting both drives again and reinstalling Windows has been the only thing thus far that has resulted in a boot of anything. With the GBUB CD, I've tried all the various options that are under GNU/Linux in an attempt to boot Ubuntu after it has been installed. GRUB does recognize that Ubuntu is present, but it is always unable to boot it or create the MBR.
When running the Ubuntu installer, it once gave me an error related to creating the user, and then it appeared to continue installing, but didn't work. Other times, it has gone through the install process, and then appeared to finish. It didn't ask me to reboot, though.
Does anyone have recommendations for something that can help, and that can hopefully avoid having to format the working Windows drive again? I've run the Ubuntu CD through the disk checker on the startup screen, and it apparently doesn't have any errors.
Oh, I don't have a floppy drive at this time, if that's relevant at all. Currently, I have once again reinstalled Windows on the Master drive. I wouldn't be terribly against reformatting the Master if necessary, as I haven't reinstalled all my backups yet. I do have backups, though, of important data.
Thanks for any help.
Jon