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

[Steve Miller]

On 22/10/2007, Andrew Barber 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

;)
-- 
Andrew Alexander Barber

OK, thanks, there are a couple roughly like this already and I'll add my 
example.
Cheers, Steve