I think we DESPERATLY need a grub/winXP newbie HowTo

[Ben Edwards]

What did you use to resize - is there a free util that works with 2000/XP?

Ben

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:01:53 -0400, Ben Novack <bennovack at gmail.com> wrote:
> I resized my XP partition before I began the process, had Ubuntu
> install into the empty space, and I've been merrily dual-booting ever
> since.
> 
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> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:51:43 -0400, Mike Clark <mike.clark at hamot.org> wrote:
> > I have done numerous XP/Grub installs and Ive never had a problem. If
> > your referring to the fedora debacle with grub and making XP not
> > bootable that has been fixed. It wasnt Distro Specific, it was a kernel
> > issue. Lets say for some odd reason it does 'trash your windows install'
> > just look up fedora/xp dual boot fix and you will find that this command
> > fixes it completely. (sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255
> > /dev/hda) The site with this info is http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ . If
> > you ever want to wipe the MBR and start over, get rid of LILO of GRUB.
> > Just boot to your XP cd and type 'fixmbr' at the prompt. Reboot and your
> > back to your lovely XP install. Honestly tho, when you are partitioning
> > for your UBUNTU install do not touch the partition that reads NTFS/DOS
> > and you will be fine. Thats all.
> >
> > >>> Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> 10/27/2004 4:55:01 PM >>>
> >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > Ben Edwards
> > Documentation Team
> >
> > PS apologies to the moderator of the devel list - could you please
> > moderate this through
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