I just installed ubuntu 11.04 on a separate partition on my hard drive so i can have dual boot for window 7 and ubuntu. I have done this in the past with 10.10 and it use to work fine. But now after installing 11.04 I am not able to boot it. I have recorded a video of what happens. here is the link. http://www.......com/watch?v=oLr2LqS0cEQ
I have written my laptop spec in the description of the video.
At first I apologize if my question isn't so Ubuntu-related. I had Win7 installed on my first partition. Before installing xp (on second partition), I toke a backup of MBR (actually first 63 sectors) by dd utility. Later i installed xp. You may know, it doesn't know seven and makes it un-bootable. Then I restored MBR. But I surprised because xp still boots up. whats the problem? BTW what I want to do now is to multi boot xp and seven. Is there any work around, something like a hack using GRUB boot loader to be able boot the both?
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[code]....
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Second time through (a complete fresh start - new partition and everything) it went all the way through to completion and reboot.Clicked 'Continue' to reboot and the machine reset as it would normally and the Grub loader started okay, prompted for the "Debian amd64" standard boot image, selected that and the first 6 lines appeared normal, then the messages wizzed by so fast that only superman could read them. Then they stop - here is some of the content...
[3.816673] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to killl init!
Call trace:
get_empty_filp
panic
[code].....
Running it again I get similar stack stuff but it's a different place: [3.541816], [3.427502] And sometimes if I wait for a minute or two it will continue on further but appear to crash again. Hardware details (everything is onboard - no added cards):
G41M-S3
Intel G41 + ICH7 chipsets
CPU: LGA 775 for Intel Core 2 Extreme
[code]......
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The Error Message
"BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
The Setup
My computer has 3 HD's the first drive dual booted windows7/ubuntu10.4
The other HD's are NTFS slave drives will all my data on them.
After a lot of reading the fix I found was to use my windows7 repair disk, but I don't have a repair disk. I also cant torrent at my school so I cant install a repair disk via a torrent file.
What I Did
I reinstalled ubuntu 9.10 wiping clean my first HD (sda). I restarted my computer and still got this error.
I have a desktop pc with three hard drives:
160 gb with windows XP
500 gb used for data and archives
40 gb with Ubuntu 10.04 and Zorun 4
Grub currently defaults to boot Ubuntu I want to make changes to boot XP as default. What file(s) do I need to edit to make necessary changes? In the older distros I knew how to edit "menu.1st" to get this done. The newer distros must have a different structure because I can not find a menu.1st file.
I unplugged the Windows drive, during the installation of Ubuntu 9 (to make things easier). 2 separate drives. When installation was complete, I plugged the other drive back in (now both are plugged in). I went to the BIOS and made sure the Linux drive was the set to boot before the windows drive. The only thing that comes before that of course is the cd drive
CD-0
HDD-1 (linux)
HDD-0 (windows)
I booted into linux after this and ran 'sudo update-grub'. The cmd was successful. However, when rebooting it does not give me the option to boot to windows. Why not?
PS. If I go to Places (under GNOME bar), Then I can see (and mount) the windows drive. So it is accessible.
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As I recall, during the upgrade process, something, I assume grub 2, asked for a list of boot devices and defaulted to selecting all devices, one of which was a non-bootable USB stick. I consented.
This returned some sort of error; I made a couple different choices selecting different drives until ultimately it accepted my choice and continued the upgrade process.
Once the upgrade completed, I could no longer boot into Vista. I now assume that one of the choices that I deselected was the dual-boot manager.
From what I can tell, all the Windows files remain intact, I just can't boot into Vista.
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Boot from (hd1, 0) ext3
Starting up...
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C - win xp D - win7 E- data F - data
Today I installed Ubuntu to C or win xp partition.
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