--- In [email protected], Chris Becker <usabecker@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM, KLaus <klauslms@...> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Roy, > > thank you for your help! > > I am tired of repairing. I will install both systems again! > > Kind regards > > Charlyms > > > > > Just a note, every time I have installed Ubuntu to dual boot with XP, > it has been required to run the system repair CD to restore the boot > sector of Windows. This used to be mentioned in all of the tutorials > I was using back then when I first got started, but I do not see it > mentioned on the ones I am finding now. I do not know if the problem > has supposedly gone away or not. But the process is fairly simple: > boot from the windows install CD (after first installing Windows then > Ubuntu) and then select the option that is something like "repair an > existing installation." I don't remember the exact steps, but I do > recall it was fairly automated and intuitive when looking at the > options. > > My experience is different from Roy's as I never had to Reinstall grub > after I did that. I don't know if that is because I was lucky or if > something has changed. > > ~Chris > > > > > Hello Chris, I had restored the Windows boot sector after the first failure or attempt as you described. Even the repair of Grub doesn´t had success. By the way: with Grub 1 I had no problems to restore. But there seems to be no way to install Ubuntu 10.10 with Grub 1 (?). Kind regards Charlyms
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