Dual boot WinXP and Ubuntu 6.10 in desktop and laptop using NTLDR

[Zhengguo Xu]

Thanks again Mario,

I know boot.ini is a hidden file and in fact in my Dell laptop it is located
in C:. It is weird, though, that my desktop behaved differently. I guess
that's something to do with the default setting of this HP PC. Once I'd
deleted this FAT32 partition and reinstalled windows using the recovery disk
but windows just refused to boot. Another weird thing I haven't figured out.
Fortunately enough, the warrantee wasn't expired at that time and I was able
to get a new PC. Since then I haven't touched that partition again. :-P

Anyway, I'm going to reinstall Ubuntu tonight and I'll let you know if new
problems popped out.

by the way, i've read the linked article before i posted the question. :-P

On 11/14/06, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 01:25 +0100, Zhengguo Xu wrote:
> > and i do edit the boot.ini but i still got missing hal.dll message.
>
> I have reread your original message. It seems to me that the location of
> the boot.ini file is very weird. I do not think it should be on K:. What
> you see on K: might be the backup copy, K: is the recovery partition
> after all.
>
> The boot.ini file should always be on the active partition, so check
> with fdisk or something which one is active - it will probably be C:
>
> Note that by default the boot.ini file is hidden and read-only. Follow
> the steps given here to make it visible and editable:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311578
>
> Then add the entry for Ubuntu. Let's see if that helps
>
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