dual boot problem

[R Kimber]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:13:55 +0200
"Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu)" <ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li> wrote:

> Looks good for me.

I've since tried to boot the XP disk and also had problems.  Firstly it
hung after a message saying that setup was checking the hardware. Then
after disabling USB (because I seem to have to disable USB in the bios
to get linux to install, I did the same for this Windows setup)
the setup started properly, but then hung with a message suggesting I
should remove any recently installed controllers, look for viruses
(maybe it thinks grub is a virus?) check everything, etc. Although there
is a bootable pci Promise controller that has been added after the
original Windows installation, I can't really remove it as the cdrom
runs from it.

smartctl does not report anything wrong with the drive that windows is
on, and linux can access it OK.

Maybe I have to replace the mbr for the windows disk to work properly,
and then find a way of re-installing grub.

> You can try to build a NT Bootfloppy
> http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/ and see if you can boot with that
> one.

Thanks.  I'll try that.

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/