Flopping Problems

[Shawn Christopher]

On 4/28/05, Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:15 +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > ke, 2005-04-27 kello 20:32 -0700, Shawn Christopher kirjoitti:
> >
> > > I mean I know it seems like I am pushing the package that I need to be
> > > using Windows...however I'm really tired of doing what I need to do for
> > > work. and installing Ubuntu. As far as Dual booting...I've had BAD
> > > experiences with that...so any other ideas?
> >
> >
> > I have got the impression from this list that generally people using
> > Hoary have very little problems with dual boot. I'm not at all an
> > experienced or knowledgeable user - you propably no much more about
> > computers than I do, but dual boot has always been an easy and problem
> > free thing for me to set up - I have done it for several machines
> > (allways into one hard drive). Actually there even isn't much to set up
> > - it's so automated. As far as you take care not to install over your
> > existing Windows partition, you normally should have no worries.
> >
> > Was your problem with getting the dual boot to work at all or didn't it
> > work properly? Again - I propably can't help you myself, but
> > the-ones-who-know-things on this list very well might be able to.
> >
> > Sorry about actually not being able to help you :-(
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ari Torhamo
> >
> >
> 
> Ubuntu has done a superior job with GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) --
> better than I have seen on any distribution. Normally, I have to
> manually modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf or menu.lst files to boot from
> more than two operating systems.
> 
> In the current stable version of Ubuntu, grub finds all the operating
> systems and creates the menu.
> 
> Linux and Windows boot differently. Windows uses the boot sectors in any
> partition in which it is installed. Linux boots from a kernel in the
> directory tree. So, grub installs in the Master Boot Record - the first
> sector of the disk. It then points to where the boot kernels exist. In
> Linux, they exist in the directory tree in Windows, DOS and OS/2 they
> live in the first sector of the partition they inhabit.
> 
> The syntax of Grub is straight forward and easy with a slight
> difference. hd0,0 is actually /dev/hda1. That shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> The main thing, however, is that you won't have worry about modifying
> the grub.conf file as Ubuntu has fixed the issue programmatically.
> That's one of the differences in Ubuntu. Where a developer might find
> something odd with which they can live, Ubuntu looks at the issue from
> the user point of view and makes it work for them.
> 
> Tom
> 
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I have to agree....I had dual booting partially setup before however
it would get to the end of the boot process (the end of the menu) and
then stop...not go anywhere...there is only so much I could figure
out. I'll be installing Longhorn here soon and then after that I will
try to dual boot again.

Shawn