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Dual Boot System Problems!!!! AGAIN
From: |
Ken Rutledge |
Subject: |
Dual Boot System Problems!!!! AGAIN |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:29:59 -0400 |
Multiboot System Boot Failure?
OK
so I've had this problem before and never got resolution for it that I
could work with and so here I am again with a Windows drive failure on
a multiboot system that now renders ubuntu 9.10 un-useable also?
You'll have to pardon me for my candid opinion on this but just why in
the world would someone write a linux OS boot loader that was DEPENDANT
on WINDOWS to boot? With the boot loader acting this way, ubuntu is no
better than the Windows OS it requires to boot?
I had a Windows xp drive fail yesterday and afterwards ubuntu will not
boot either? I've done Google.com searches out they yeng-yang with
references to "ubuntu live" CDs that are pretty much non-existent. All
I can find is the regular install CD that is referenced here? I did
find one site that had another "flavor" of ubuntu v10.04 that I
downloaded but that one IS NOT 9.10 either and all the documentation
I've read specifies ubuntu 9.10 "live"?
So since I can't find a simple solution to fix grub I now have a
multiboot computer that I can't use without wiping out the ubuntu load
that's on it and reinstalling and having to do a gazillion updates,
reinstall add ons, etc?
So I need some help on how to configure grub to let ubuntu boot itself
WITHOUT a Windowz XP drive in that box? And it would also be nice to
have a way NOT to have grub depend on Windows to boot ubuntu!
Any help anyone? Oh, and please make it simple as I'm just not a command line person.
Thanks,
Ken
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