Flopping Problems

[Joe Wamsley]

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Shawn Christopher wrote:
> 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
> 
You might want to try the gag boot manager it makes dual booting very
easy. Here's the link http://gag.sourceforge.net/. Hope this helps you out.

Joe Wamsley
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