Ntloader missing and can't get dsl working in Ubuntu

Mark Nottingham mark at planetman.co.uk
Fri Sep 16 18:47:52 UTC 2005


Johann Spies wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:36:06AM -0400, Richard Querin wrote:
>  
>
>>   Ok, this is now getting tiring...
>>
>>   1. I finally got Ubuntu installed and working (thanks to all for the
>>   partitioning advice). Grub comes up and gives me the alternate choice of
>>   using XP. When I pick it I get an 'ntloader missing' message and it won't
>>   boot XP. Grub is installed to the /boot partition and I didn't overwrite
>>   the MBR.
>>    
>>
>
>I could never get any Linux installation to boot properly when I did
>that.  Install grub on the MBR and it should work.
>
>Regards
>Johann
>  
>
This happened to me when I first installed Ubuntu. All I did was boot up 
with the XP cd and go into the recovery console, then manually copy 
ntldr and ntdetect.com (just in case) to the root of C. It was fine 
after that.

Mark




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