Re: problems after installing karmic
Dear users, I have tried The procedure, which can guarantee You, that YOu will be able to boot to Windows Xp if YOu will remove Linux operating system according to my directions. If You will not be able to boot to Windows XP, You are having two possibility. 1. Remove partitions, which are used by Ubuntu Karmic, I Am strongly recommending You to rather use stable live CD for removing and modifiing The partitions, because kernel of development releases can be unstable. Use gparted only in Live CD mode while YOu will boot from this live CD. Or You would try to manually edit Grub configuration file and specifi to boot WIndows XP. try to please a sighted person, if there is item for starting Windows XP. If no, installation program for Karmic did not add The Grub configuration for starting Windows XP. Try to look at The partitions, if You did not removed NTFS partition. So how to remove Linux safely and how to recover Windows SXP to be bootable again? Boot from a stable Ubuntu live CD, I Am strongly recommending You to boot from Ubuntu Jaunty official release. Use gparted to remove Linux based partitions. Before removing Linux svap, disable it by using F10 function key and right arrow key to get to The partition sub menu. And press down arrow key until YOu will hear svap off. This will disable svap file. Because Linux kernel will probably use Your svap file eventhough You will boot from A live CD. Linux kernel is loving The svap file very much, and if it will see this partition, kernel will start to use it. When You will have svap file off, You can remove Linux svap, and extended partition. You can also remove EXT4 partition if You will experiment with Ubuntu Karmic, EXT3 file system will be used while using older Ubuntu releases. When you will have removed all Linux partitions, restart Your computer with Ubuntu live CD on YOur CD boot drive. Start gparted again and when cursor will be on a NTFS partition, explore The Gparted menus to find The flags sub menu. Enable The boot flag in The dialog box. Your NTFS partition must be bootable, so The boot flag must be turned on. Apply the changes and restart Your computer without Ubuntu live CD. I found out, that by using boot flag, The boot sector will be working fine and Your WIndows XP will very probably start fine without problems. There is also other procedure, so user have to use The console and before triing to install other operating system, user can backup several sectors of his hard drive to The floppy drive or to The USB disk. I can explain both procedures for this. I Am not author of those procedures. One professional from GRML E-mail conference described this procedure for backing up sectors to USE or to A floppy drive. I will try to send A direct link to his article, eventhough The whole article is focused on installing GRML, The procedure for backing up and restoring from this backup is included. I tried The procedure for recovering Windows XP to The boot state after removing Linux distro. I tried this procedure for Opensuse, but i think, that boot flags will be working fine, because i used Gparted from Ubuntu to set The NTFS boot flag TO The on state. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: problems after installing karmic
Hi, This is well known problem, have a look the release notes Karmic Alpha 3 If you install Karmic Alpha 3 alongside Windows, the grub boot menu may not offer to start Windows. (bug #402795) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/TechnicalOverview#Known%20issues Cheers --arky Rakesh 'arky' Ambati | IT Consultant |http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com --- On Sat, 25/7/09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel chm...@phil.muni.cz wrote: From: Mgr. Janusz Chmiel chm...@phil.muni.cz Subject: Re: problems after installing karmic To: Rakesh arky Ambati rakesh_amb...@yahoo.com, ubuntu ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com, mike kb8...@verizon.net Date: Saturday, 25 July, 2009, 1:46 PM Dear users, I have tried The procedure, which can guarantee You, that YOu will be able to boot to Windows Xp if YOu will remove Linux operating system according to my directions. If You will not be able to boot to Windows XP, You are having two possibility. 1. Remove partitions, which are used by Ubuntu Karmic, I Am strongly recommending You to rather use stable live CD for removing and modifiing The partitions, because kernel of development releases can be unstable. Use gparted only in Live CD mode while YOu will boot from this live CD. Or You would try to manually edit Grub configuration file and specifi to boot WIndows XP. try to please a sighted person, if there is item for starting Windows XP. If no, installation program for Karmic did not add The Grub configuration for starting Windows XP. Try to look at The partitions, if You did not removed NTFS partition. So how to remove Linux safely and how to recover Windows SXP to be bootable again? Boot from a stable Ubuntu live CD, I Am strongly recommending You to boot from Ubuntu Jaunty official release. Use gparted to remove Linux based partitions. Before removing Linux svap, disable it by using F10 function key and right arrow key to get to The partition sub menu. And press down arrow key until YOu will hear svap off. This will disable svap file. Because Linux kernel will probably use Your svap file eventhough You will boot from A live CD. Linux kernel is loving The svap file very much, and if it will see this partition, kernel will start to use it. When You will have svap file off, You can remove Linux svap, and extended partition. You can also remove EXT4 partition if You will experiment with Ubuntu Karmic, EXT3 file system will be used while using older Ubuntu releases. When you will have removed all Linux partitions, restart Your computer with Ubuntu live CD on YOur CD boot drive. Start gparted again and when cursor will be on a NTFS partition, explore The Gparted menus to find The flags sub menu. Enable The boot flag in The dialog box. Your NTFS partition must be bootable, so The boot flag must be turned on. Apply the changes and restart Your computer without Ubuntu live CD. I found out, that by using boot flag, The boot sector will be working fine and Your WIndows XP will very probably start fine without problems. There is also other procedure, so user have to use The console and before triing to install other operating system, user can backup several sectors of his hard drive to The floppy drive or to The USB disk. I can explain both procedures for this. I Am not author of those procedures. One professional from GRML E-mail conference described this procedure for backing up sectors to USE or to A floppy drive. I will try to send A direct link to his article, eventhough The whole article is focused on installing GRML, The procedure for backing up and restoring from this backup is included. I tried The procedure for recovering Windows XP to The boot state after removing Linux distro. I tried this procedure for Opensuse, but i think, that boot flags will be working fine, because i used Gparted from Ubuntu to set The NTFS boot flag TO The on state. Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: problems after installing karmic
--- On Wed, 22/7/09, mike kb8...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, I installed a karmic live CD today and discovered that it booted fine, but I could no longer boot my windows operating system. Has anyone else had this problem? Hi, The alpha releases do have problems, I had patch one related to automatic login however do try one of daily build or Alpha3 and report a bug. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ Cheers --arky Rakesh 'arky' Ambati | IT Catalyst | www.braillewithoutborders.org | blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
problems after installing karmic
Hi, I installed a karmic live CD today and discovered that it booted fine, but I could no longer boot my windows operating system. Has anyone else had this problem? I used downarrow like I always did by pressing it several times to get to the end of the list. But the system didn't boot at all. I also tried pressing it one time, two times and so on with the same results. So has the way you get to the windows operating system changed too. I realize karmic is still in development, but this and the gdm problems I have are going to cause a lot of trouble for anyone who upgrades expecting things to at least work as they did before. I reinstalled the last version of ubuntu again and everything worked fine. Mike -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
