[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu install to USB and existing XP

Andrew Barber andrew.alex.barber at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 01:07:02 BST 2007


On 22/10/2007, Steve Miller <stevem at seawasp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've had a play with 7.10 and it looks very good indeed; a lot of hard
> work has gone into creating it and it works very well indeed.
>
> There seems to be a problem though for XP users who download the CD and
> attempt to install it on an external USB device, either a disk or a
> flash key, using a machine where there *already exists* a working copy
> of Windows on the first internal IDE drive.  Essentially, the install to
> the USB device works just fine until right at the end when GRUB, usually
> complaining first about the cylinders on the USB partition being more
> than 1024 from start, dumps all over the existing Windows boot.
>
> I can see how and why this is happening; there are a number of ways
> around it (I used Syslinux in the end) but I'm worried that a typical XP
> user, who won't be able to recover from this, isn't going to be too
> delighted.  The installed Ubuntu won't boot and neither will XP anymore,
> so the large amount of help and advice about what to do isn't even
> available.  There does seem to be a large demand for installing  7.10
> into this configuration and perhaps there should be a clear warning
> somewhere *before* it's attempted?
>
> I just wondered what you guys thought?
>
> Cheers, Steve



I can't confirm this, or even advise on it. I would however point you
towards submitting it as a bug.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs


;)




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Andrew Alexander Barber
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