[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 14.4 installation

[Aere Greenway]

On 01/23/2016 01:54 PM, Patrick Shaw wrote:
>
> I installed Lubuntu 14.4 on desktop running win xp 32 bit .During the 
> installation I was asked to install Lubuntu alongside win xp, I said yes.
>
> After installation I see no way to get to win xp. I think the program 
> was suppose to install a dual boot.
>
> What should I do ?
>
> Thanks Patrick
>
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> Windows 10
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>
>
With Lubuntu booted (and signed-in to it), click on the menu (lower left 
of tool-bar), then click on "Accessories", and then "Disks".

In the window that appears, do you see a partition (of type NTFS) where 
Windows XP runs?  Close the "Disks" window.

If the Windows partition was there, click on the menu, then "System 
Tools", and then "Synaptic Package Manager", and enter your password 
when it asks for it.

Click the "Search" tool-bar button in the Synaptic Package Manager 
window, and search for "grub-pc" (without the double-quotes).

In the "grub-pc" line, single-left-click on the filled-in check-box at 
the left of the line, and select "Mark for Reinstallation" in the menu 
that appears, then click the "Apply" tool-bar button.  Click the "Apply" 
button of the "Summary" dialog that appears.

In the window that appears next, expand the "Details"  line (click on 
the small triangle of it), and watch what happens in the terminal window 
that appears below it.  A line with "Found Windows XP" in it should appear.

If it does, when you close the Synaptic window (after it's done), and 
re-boot, you should see the grub (Grand Unified Boot-Loader) screen, and 
it should have a menu of systems you can boot, one of which is your 
Windows XP system.

Without waiting very long when that appears, hit the down-arrow key so 
that the Windows line is highlighted, then press the enter key. If you 
wait too long, Lubuntu will boot.

Hopefully, that will get things working.  If not, we'll have to look 
harder.

Sometimes, in answering what we think is "Yes" to a question during 
installation, we might not be answering what we think we are answering, 
which can have very bad consequences.

Hopefully, it just re-sized your Windows partition, and installed 
Lubuntu in the extra space left over after re-sizing.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere

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