We may have problems if you use Partition Magic and stops any pending actions causing failure at startup and therefore in the GRUB.
recently deleted the partition that had a secondary ide disk with Partition Magic and it left a pending task that ended up ending the XP disk administrator. Bonita
surprise at boot indicating the much hated " Error 17" before loading the GRUB.
Calm, all is not lost, you can start your PC by simply inserting the installation disk bootable Windows or the Super Grub Disk-.
What has happened simply Partition Magic has changed in some way damaging the GRUB boot.
For some reason the Windows partition was damaged but it appears that the disc data is intact. If we try to do a fixboot, fixmbr or bootcfg / default from XP recovery console will not get results.
To restore the damaged partition, if not physically, we use a great program, PTDD ( Partition Table Doctor).
There are several options, including creating a boot diskette or CD-ROM, once created and select to boot from the damaged partition, select menu REBUILD PARTITION TABLE, accept and then save the changes by FILE-SAVE. Reboot and ready and enter Windows but ... and our UBUNTU? : (((
Do the following:
RECOVERY OF GRUB:
1 .- Faster
- Introducing the Super-Grub-Disk (the download is on this blog)
- Select boot Ubuntu from the HD using GRUB.
- run in terminal: sudo grub-install / dev / sda (sda sata drive would be a principal), and finally
sudo update-grub. Reboot and go.
2 .- The alternative:
- Introducing the Ubuntu installation disc
- Start the livecd
- Execute the following in terminal: sudo mkdir
/ Mnt / ubuntu (create map for our Ubuntu installation hd)
(identify which device is our Ubuntu installation with sudo gparted )
sudo mount / dev / [device] / mnt / ubuntu sudo grub-install
- root-directory = / mnt / ubuntu / dev / sda
sudo chroot / mnt / ubuntu sudo update-grub
Note: If for any reason from grub Windows still does not start, Be sure that you are calling from the right device (hd0, 0) eg. I particularly had to remove the lines mapping the option of XP. (To edit the grub -> sudo gedit / boot / grub / menu.lst)
With this we have the dual boot. I hope you find it as helpful as I do. Until next time!
recently deleted the partition that had a secondary ide disk with Partition Magic and it left a pending task that ended up ending the XP disk administrator. Bonita
surprise at boot indicating the much hated " Error 17" before loading the GRUB.
Calm, all is not lost, you can start your PC by simply inserting the installation disk bootable Windows or the Super Grub Disk-.
What has happened simply Partition Magic has changed in some way damaging the GRUB boot.
For some reason the Windows partition was damaged but it appears that the disc data is intact. If we try to do a fixboot, fixmbr or bootcfg / default from XP recovery console will not get results.
To restore the damaged partition, if not physically, we use a great program, PTDD ( Partition Table Doctor).
There are several options, including creating a boot diskette or CD-ROM, once created and select to boot from the damaged partition, select menu REBUILD PARTITION TABLE, accept and then save the changes by FILE-SAVE. Reboot and ready and enter Windows but ... and our UBUNTU? : (((
Do the following:
RECOVERY OF GRUB:
1 .- Faster
- Introducing the Super-Grub-Disk (the download is on this blog)
- Select boot Ubuntu from the HD using GRUB.
- run in terminal: sudo grub-install / dev / sda (sda sata drive would be a principal), and finally
sudo update-grub. Reboot and go.
2 .- The alternative:
- Introducing the Ubuntu installation disc
- Start the livecd
- Execute the following in terminal: sudo mkdir
/ Mnt / ubuntu (create map for our Ubuntu installation hd)
(identify which device is our Ubuntu installation with sudo gparted )
sudo mount / dev / [device] / mnt / ubuntu sudo grub-install
- root-directory = / mnt / ubuntu / dev / sda
sudo chroot / mnt / ubuntu sudo update-grub
Note: If for any reason from grub Windows still does not start, Be sure that you are calling from the right device (hd0, 0) eg. I particularly had to remove the lines mapping the option of XP. (To edit the grub -> sudo gedit / boot / grub / menu.lst)
With this we have the dual boot. I hope you find it as helpful as I do. Until next time!
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