Thanks Kamus. I apologize for submitting it as a bug report. I'm still familiarizing myself with the support features (also it was very late and I was tired and frustrated...). I'll read through the support tracker site and see if I can find some suggestions and clues to help me figure this out. I feel like it's 1985 all over again. My first computer had DOS on it and I had to figure out what to type in the command line to get it to do anything useful.
Thanks for you help. All the best. /Ed H On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Kamus <kamu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make > Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does > not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to > a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you > are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are > having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if > you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs . > > -- > Dual boot did not work when installed Ubuntu 9.10 on XP Pro SP3 HDD > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496841 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > I downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 then burned it to CD. I then rebooted and > launched Ubuntu from the disk to try it out. I loved it. After defragging > my C: HDD and running TuneUp Disk Doctor on it to make sure it was in good > working order, I then tried to install Ubuntu onto the C drive. I followed > the guided installation which showed it repartitioning my 80GB C drive so > the first part of the drive was still dedicated to Windows XP SP3 and the > second part of the drive was dedicated to Ubuntu 9.10. All seemed to go > well. I eventually rebooted without the CD but the system stopped and > showed this message: > > GRUB loading. > error: no such disk > grub rescue > > I repeated the reboot and got the same message again. I've now rebooted > and launched Ubuntu from the CD. I can access all the applications on the > CD and am using Firefox launched from the CD to write this bug report. I > can also launch Places/C: / and see all the files and documents that were on > my C HDD earlier under Windows XP. I even opened one of my old Word docs, > modified it using OpenOffice and resaved it. > > I tried to re-install Ubuntu from the CD again but when I get to the point > where it checks the C HDD, the installation program does not see the Windows > XP OS. It sees the Unbutu 9.10 system and gives me two options. The first > is to make the first instance of Ubuntu the OS at the front half or so of > the HDD and to make the second instance of Ubuntu I'm now trying to install > on the back half or so of the HDD. The second option is to install the > existing instance Ubuntu on the first third or so of the drive and a shared > area in the middle and the second instance of Ubuntu on the back third or > so. I believe a swap file area was set up at the end. I quit the > installation then launched Firefox and registered for Launchpad and began > this bug report process. > > What do you recommend I do next? I am new to Linux and Ubuntu but very > interested in learning how to troubleshoot this problem and learn how to > better utilize Ubuntu in the future. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Mon Dec 14 22:42:04 2009 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus > LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) > Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1 > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic > SourcePackage: nautilus > Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 > XsessionErrors: > (gnome-settings-daemon:3003): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: > assertion `src != NULL' failed > (gnome-settings-daemon:3003): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: > assertion `src != NULL' failed > (nautilus:3059): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion > `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed > (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3079): GLib-CRITICAL **: > g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed > (nautilus:6511): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion > `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/496841/+subscribe > -- Dual boot did not work when installed Ubuntu 9.10 on XP Pro SP3 HDD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496841 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
