I think we DESPERATLY need a grub/winXP newbie HowTo

[Ben Edwards]

This is probably true but douse not help those affected much ;)

I wonder ehen it will be fixed and it a fix can be incorporated before
the next release.

This article looks like it will be very usefull in writing the howto -
if someone steps forward I will point then at ti - thanks.

Ben

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:12:06 -0500, Robert Brimhall <rbrimhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:55:01 +0100, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been hanging around the IRC channel a little bit as well as
> > keeping an eye on the User List.  I am increasingly getting the idea
> > doing a dual boot Ubuntu-WinXP install is a VERY bad idea.  I think it
> > is something to do with the difference in which grub and windows
> > addresses disk space - in lilo this was not a problem.
> >
> > This is a real problem because a lot of windows users wanting who want
> > to try Ubuntu will try this and lose access to there Windows
> > partition.    this is something that needs addressing - The headline
> > 'Ubuntu trashed my Windows machine' send chills up my spine.
> >
> > This is not just a WinXP issue - someone at our local LUG wanted to
> > try Ubuntu.  they previously had SusE and had real grub problems -
> > they posted to the user list and did not get a reply.
> >
> > A Newbie, who is not used to using mailing lists and IRC may well
> > panic - swear and reinstall windows.
> >
> > Indeed a lot of the grub / WinXP problems are not getting responses on
> > the Mailing list - I am sending people to IRC but this is not ideal -
> > for one thing the answers are not being archived.
> >
> > So I think we need a WinXP & a grub howto/troubleshooting document for
> > Newbees - and possibly a what to do if have problems installing dual
> > boot.
> >
> > Currently the wiki is being frozen while it is migrated to a new
> > system.  I am not technical enough to write the document but if
> > someone wanted to volunteer and send it to me I will make sure your
> > work is not wasted (I am posting this to the user/ devl and docs list,
> > those on the docs list obviously do not need to post it to me but it
> > would be good if they could tell me if they are doing this).
> >
> 
> Isn't the grub problem really a kernel problem? Several 2.6 kernel
> based distros suffer from disk-geometry problems... Fedora Core 2 for
> example...  here's an article specific to FC2 but it probably applies
> to Ubuntu (if this a kernel problem as I think)
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/
> 


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