[ubuntu-uk] Repairing a dualboot Ubuntu-XP system
I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it is the XP registry file that is corrupted, I suspect that I would need to do a full WR. If I do the above, it would (I think) replace the GRUB boot/MBR with XP's loader. My question is, could I then boot off a live CD and sudo grub update to reinstall and rebuild GRUB as easy as that?? Or is it more involved? It's a big enough pain that XP is borked. Advice appreciated. Dave Smith, lowly MS repair technician and Ubuntu 10.10 aficionado. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repairing a dualboot Ubuntu-XP system
This is what I did from a live cd: su mount /dev/sda6 /mnt grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda reboot then sudo update-grub replace sda6 with your partition Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repairing a dualboot Ubuntu-XP system
On 24 December 2011 12:10, David Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote: I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it is the XP registry file that is corrupted, I suspect that I would need to do a full WR. If I do the above, it would (I think) replace the GRUB boot/MBR with XP's loader. My question is, could I then boot off a live CD and sudo grub update to reinstall and rebuild GRUB as easy as that?? Or is it more involved? It's a big enough pain that XP is borked. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repairing a dualboot Ubuntu-XP system
On 24/12/11 12:10, David Smith wrote: I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it is the XP registry file that is corrupted, I suspect that I would need to do a full WR. If I do the above, it would (I think) replace the GRUB boot/MBR with XP's loader. My question is, could I then boot off a live CD and sudo grub update to reinstall and rebuild GRUB as easy as that?? Or is it more involved? It's a big enough pain that XP is borked. Advice appreciated. Dave Smith, lowly MS repair technician and Ubuntu 10.10 aficionado. i Have just reinstelled windows, and selefcted the repair option, and this reinstalled windows ontop and left all my files / data intact and surprisingly left the mbr intact too. I think you select install then repair, Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net Join the revolution, switch to Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repairing a dualboot Ubuntu-XP system
On 24/12/11 13:39, paul sutton wrote: On 24/12/11 12:10, David Smith wrote: I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it is the XP registry file that is corrupted, I suspect that I would need to do a full WR. If I do the above, it would (I think) replace the GRUB boot/MBR with XP's loader. My question is, could I then boot off a live CD and sudo grub update to reinstall and rebuild GRUB as easy as that?? Or is it more involved? It's a big enough pain that XP is borked. Advice appreciated. Dave Smith, lowly MS repair technician and Ubuntu 10.10 aficionado. i Have just reinstelled windows, and selefcted the repair option, and this reinstalled windows ontop and left all my files / data intact and surprisingly left the mbr intact too. I think you select install then repair, It is possible that the actual XP version used might have be significant, all XP is not the same, it was produced over a long period. For example, early versions do not immediately require activation, but later versions do. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user FSF #9005 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repairing a dualboot Ubuntu-XP system
On 24/12/11 13:54, alan c wrote: On 24/12/11 13:39, paul sutton wrote: On 24/12/11 12:10, David Smith wrote: I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it is the XP registry file that is corrupted, I suspect that I would need to do a full WR. If I do the above, it would (I think) replace the GRUB boot/MBR with XP's loader. My question is, could I then boot off a live CD and sudo grub update to reinstall and rebuild GRUB as easy as that?? Or is it more involved? It's a big enough pain that XP is borked. Advice appreciated. Dave Smith, lowly MS repair technician and Ubuntu 10.10 aficionado. i Have just reinstelled windows, and selefcted the repair option, and this reinstalled windows ontop and left all my files / data intact and surprisingly left the mbr intact too. I think you select install then repair, It is possible that the actual XP version used might have be significant, all XP is not the same, it was produced over a long period. For example, early versions do not immediately require activation, but later versions do. Yeah its XP pro with SP2 -- -- http://www.zleap.net Join the revolution, switch to Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
