Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[Phillip Sc. Boegh]

Hi Ubuntu's

I have replaced 5 PC that had Windows with Ubuntu and 22 that were
scrapped due to the extreme hardware demand that made windowsXP crawl.
These PCs are about to be send to low-tech areas in Kunming, China. I have
asked for transportation money from Canonical who do not even answer my
snail-mails nor Emails :-(.
Finely I try to replace another 8 PCs with Ubuntu in a graphic company,
but at least 5 of these have to include a VMWARE with window$ to make use
of a windows RIP-server system
If they acount in your "statistics" I do not know.

No really practical support when you are not novice anymore, but I like to
say thanks for the really nice OS Ubuntu is !:-))

Regards

Phillip

P.S. Finaly one with a non-working dual-boot.

All above works except the one PC with two seperate harddisks - one with
Ubuntu and one with Windows XP. It may close the whole Linux-project of
the graphic company so they now consider to return to windows - and that
is bad luck!

Nobody on any Linux-lists seems to handle that dual-boot using GRUB:

>From the mail:
Re: GRUB > and GRUB-install - that no-one could not help further:

Thanks for your reply!
>
>>From what I understand you installed each OS on its own hard drive.
That is right!

> wellmt Wrote:
...>
>> 1. Setup Windows on your primary hard drive as normal (if not already
>> done)
 I did that.

>> 2. Take out the Windows hard drive and set it as slave using jumpers
>> and put back in to PC
I tried that - but after setting Windows as slave - the windows-drive
cannot even get mounted.

>
>> 3. Set your other drive to primary using Jumpers. Put into PC and
>> install Ubuntu on it. Install GRUB as normal to the MBR of the linux
>> drive.
It is a Sata drive, so I cannot set the jumber as something else.

>
>> 4. Ubuntu will detect your Windows drive and add it to the boot menu -
Yes it did.

>> but the menu entry won't work as Windows expects to be the primary
>> drive. It's easy to fix through, all you do is change the grub menu
>> entry for windows.
>
As you see - that is what I tried.

I think my basic problem is I cannot connect to the windows-drive
/dev/hda1 with or without the Ubuntu drive present:
After installing GRUB I cannot even boot the Windows-drive leaving the
"error message" GRUB

Can I put in a bootloader in the windows drive so I can startup the windows?
Can I delete the /dev/hda1 MBR area so only the /dev/sda1 MBR is used and
boot both drives?



>> $sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Any changes here that point to the windows-drive leaves the same freeze
with the error message:
GRUB

I'll appreceate further suggestions!

Best regards

Phillip