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    Complicated boot issues

    So here's my [sic] quandary:

    First Windows XP installation on C:, second one on D:.

    I install Kubuntu onto C:, replacing the first Windows and the MBR with GRUB, with the intention of dual booting.

    Because I replaced the MBR and NTLDR etc with Kubuntu I can get GRUB to try to load the Windows partition but Windows just sh*ts itself. I do all the fixmbr stuff etc. and eventually have to replace Kubuntu again with another new Windows just to fix the MBR and get the D: Windows working again.

    So now I've successfully installed Kubuntu on the equivalent C: partition but without GRUB. So it's there but the Windows boot loader won't see it. I've tried editing the boot.ini to access the Kubuntu partition but it just keeps rejecting it and defaulting back to the Windows partition.

    What can I do to make the Windows boot loader go into Kubuntu?

    Please help!
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    #2
    Re: Complicated boot issues

    Installing Kubuntu while in windows (you explore the cd, find wubi-cdboot.exe and run it,it'll automatically add the entry into boot ini and such... than just install kubuntu whereever you want.. done and done :O
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      #3
      Re: Complicated boot issues

      Cool, I'll give it a go and let ppl know how it goes, I hope it's just that easy!

      Cheers
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        Re: Complicated boot issues

        I just spent a solid week installing wubi 7.04, updating it to 7.10 which broke the hal daemon, finding a solution for that, etc., etc. Got it to work but wouldn't recommend it even to my worst enemy

        What exactly did you change in the windblows boot loader?
        Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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          Re: Complicated boot issues

          Sounds like AltairMiraged has the best idea, and he has actually done it. I have no hands-on experience with NTLDR other than (1) avoiding it and (2) replacing it with GRUB.

          Sounds like it is the Windows on the second partition that is messing up – somehow, maybe, it did not get installed right. If it did get installed right, then the Windows boot loader should be in the boot sector of the D partition, and then GRUB should be able to boot D by chainlaoding: chainloader (hd0,1)+1. Unless--and this is what I don't know--how the C Windows got installed affects the bootloader installation to D--?

          I wonder now if this has anything to do with the partitioning – that is, with how Windows set up the D partition for the second instance of Windows. BTW, this is XP, right?
          If it's Vista, please have a look at:
          Vista *** The definitive dual-booting guide: Linux, Vista and XP step-by-step
          http://apcmag.com/dualboot

          (In fact, it might also address issues similar to what you posted here.)

          Only other thing I can think of, and I'm not sure why it would work other than that it often does work, is to re-install GRUB from the Live Kubuntu CD.
          First, install Kubuntu to (hd0,0) as you have.
          Start up the Live Kubuntu CD.
          Open Konsole, type
          sudo grub
          grub> root (hd0,0)
          grub> setup (hd0)
          grub> quit
          Exit out of the Live CD, eject/remove the CD when prompted, re-boot to test it.


          (You can boot your OSs—all of them—using GRUB on a flash drive, which means you must have the flash drive inserted when you re-boot and BIOS must be able to boot from USB; then from the GRUB menu of flash drive, you select Kubuntu or Windows to boot ...
          How To Make GRUB Thumb Drive (using the special Super Grub Disk for USB):
          http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081748.0


          EDIT--to clarify:
          So, for example, the following would (should) work:
          Re-partition the drive; install XP in (hd0,0), then install Kubuntu in (hd0,1).

          Or,

          Re-partition the drive, install Kubuntu in (hd0,0), then XP in (hd0,1), then repair GRUB in the MBR by re-installing it from a Live Kubuntu CD: root (hd0,0), setup (hd0), quit). (Some folks report, however, they have trouble installing XP that way to the second partition; and when you do so, you must make sure XP will not try to go into the entire drive.)
          An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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            #6
            Re: Complicated boot issues

            I actually used both.. Till i messed something up and grub flipped out on me.. I'll stick with windows boot loader for now lol..


            First things first tho.. install kubuntu..
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              Re: Complicated boot issues

              My advice is to stay clear of wubi. A proper Kubuntu installation and properly partitioned hard drive is by far the better option. Don't say I didn't warn you when you do an update and your system fails to mount CDs and USB drives
              Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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