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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