dschmutz
May 15th, 2009, 02:57 AM
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my computer at work in a dual boot configuration with Windows XP using Grub as the boot loader. It worked great. Then the company IT department came along and encrypted our computers using McAfee encryption. This installed its own MBR which starts the encryption software and then boots Windows XP. My Linux partitions are still intact (not encrypted), since I can access them if I boot from the Ubuntu Live CD. But I don't know how to boot Linux from these partitions. I didn't save the MBR and anyway I can't interfer with the McAfee MBR so I can't replace it anyway. I thought to use the windows boot loader to send me to the linux partition. I copied the MBR from another computer on which I dual boot XP and Ubuntu. But it just prints Grub on a black screen and stops. I'd use Wubi, but the information says it doesn't support encrypted disks.
I thought I might be able to boot to a USB stick and then select XP using the MBR on the hard drive or select Ubuntu on another partition. But I don't know how to do this. All I have found so far is the live cd that wants to run linux from the stick or boot the hard drive which means WinXP. Can someone tell me how to get a stick to alow me to select either MBR on the hard drive or the linux partition?
Doug Schmutz
I thought I might be able to boot to a USB stick and then select XP using the MBR on the hard drive or select Ubuntu on another partition. But I don't know how to do this. All I have found so far is the live cd that wants to run linux from the stick or boot the hard drive which means WinXP. Can someone tell me how to get a stick to alow me to select either MBR on the hard drive or the linux partition?
Doug Schmutz