Ubuntu Installation :: Unable To Get A Choice To Boot On Start-up?
May 16, 2011
So I'm currently On Windows XP professional and want to dual-boot with Ubuntu....
Right, so I downloaded first the ISO for ubuntu here: [URL]
And then proceeded to downloading the windows installer here: [URL]
However after "Successfully" Installing, I do not get a choice to boot from ubuntu on start-up...
I have tried several things;
Re-installing - To no effect Downloading EasyBCD, which tells me that I have No BCD file, and when I opened my Boot.ini file, it was blank... Also, there is no folder C:Boot....
Now I don't know what to do and am scared to re-start just incase it doesn't boot to anything...
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Mar 25, 2010
I tried searching forums before posting, but it was hard to search due to the specific nature of what I want to do.
I have one hard drive with windows XP on it. Another with Ubuntu. As it stands there is no link between them. Is it possible to create a dual boot using these disks? - I do not want to reinstall any of them.
Preferably, I would like the boot choice (or booter? - not really sure what I'm talking about) to be on the newer Ubuntu drive.
It is on an old machine with 256MB Ram. So slow in fact, I'm going to change the desktop environment to Xubuntu - but that's mostly irrelevant.
As I understand it, I should make the Ubuntu drive master, XP as slave... but then what?
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ERROR: setgroups() failed.
Here is strace clamd output:
...
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|0x80000 /* O_??? */) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
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Process 29002 detached
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ls -al /etc/passwd:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1616 2010-03-05 12:39 /etc/passwd
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clamav:x:108:120::/var/lib/clamav:/bin/false
/etc/group:
clamav:x:120:
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