<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi<br>Putting a live Kubuntu 7.10 CD into a Windows pc (AMD64 dual, recent nvidia chipset and graphics), I had two problems....<br><br>1 - the live CD got to the X windows stage, but not the complete KDE desktop.<br><br>2 - when I took the CD out and tried to reboot - it had boot loader problems, as though you'd taken a Linux install out of a dual boot, and it has grub errors - normally corrected for Windows by fixmbr.<br><br>Solution - There were two other harddisks in the system, one of which had a Windows XP install which wasn't active, and another which I think had once had Linux installed onto it (probably U6.06) - but had been wiped, ntfs formatted, but yet may have had some boot loader stuff still on it. I guessed right - when I took those harddisks out, and then did fixmbr, it was fine. And not only that but that K7.10 Live CD works fine as well.<br><br>The question is - Why did a Live CD muck around with boot records - or indeed any part of the compute?<br><br>Thanks<br>J<br></div></div><br> <hr size=1> Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.</body></html>