Natty Alpha 3

[clintin at linuxmail.org]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 23:12,  <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:


On the second install, it failed at the Grub install and charged quantity one destroyed Windows XP partition for trying.  Attempted a retry on the grub install without restarting, it did not see the Windows XP partition any more but did install grub successfully. This was all on test system and I have a copy of the Windows XP partition squirreled away someplace.

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Have you installed some huge commercial softwares that use the Macrovision (vendor of InstallShield) FlexNet anti-piracy technology like Adobe CS3-5 or newer AutoCADs in your XP? It's a shame that under such conditions Grub2 1.99 will ruin your first partition if it's formatted using NTFS.

Interesting that Grub2 1.99 would be released to the public with that known problem and risk.  One more pfennig deposited.

This particular bug is not listed in the release notes or know bugs. :-(  People need to be warned.  This dual boot configuration had been used to test installations of Ubuntu 10.10 and other Linux's without problem.  Don't know if I have Adobe FlexNet but I do know that my last CS version was 2 but I doubt that it was installed on this test partition, who knows, can't go back now and figure out what it had installed without doing a restore.



See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/730225 - grub-install trashes ntfs partition when sector 32 of the hard disk is occupied by Adobe FlexNet for details.


Workaround: boot up your PC with a Windows 7 installation CD and then execute
chkdsk c: /f


Vista or XP CDs might be of no use due to restriction to theirs' chdksk utility.

Tried XP CD, ran chkdsk twice, once with /P and then with /R, both times it reported unrecoverable.

Tried Win 7 Ultimate, it couldn't even find a Windows Operating system

Will have to find that backup that I have someplace... if I want to recover.

Just found out something else, Natty wouldn't pull an DHCP connection this AM but when I changed it to my primary network router, it pulled DHCP just fine. Something "trashed" the secondary downstream router since last night and I had to reboot it.  The only thing connected to router was Natty.

Thanks for you thoughts here.


 Clint 
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