valdemaras
February 17th, 2009, 07:52 AM
Hello Community.
Recently I got my Ubuntu 8.10 CD shipped and I decided it's time to give it a chance. I have an ASUS F3E series laptop with Vista Home Basic installed, and I thought I won't erase it until I don't get used to Linux completely. Ok, so the installation went perfect. Since I have a hard disk of 280GB splitted to C: and D: (in windows) I gave Linux ~14GB of C:, the same where windows are. The installation went great, as I mentioned, it finished, restarted computer - voila, I have myself a fresh, shiny Ubuntu installed. Then I try to get to my Windows Vista. I restart the computer, GRUB menu appears, I choose "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader"... and it goes mad. It starts swearing and puking with errors, throws me a window with big red "ERROR" sign, and I turn off my laptop. I then try to turn it on again, it says "GRUB ERROR 22", or something along these lines, but something about Error 22.
Okay, I heard something about Vista being not-too-friendly to other OS's, but c'mon, I've seen people dual booting Vista and other Linux's all the time, so that _IS_ possible. Please, if someone had this problem or at least similar, and knows how to solve it, help me. ;)
Recently I got my Ubuntu 8.10 CD shipped and I decided it's time to give it a chance. I have an ASUS F3E series laptop with Vista Home Basic installed, and I thought I won't erase it until I don't get used to Linux completely. Ok, so the installation went perfect. Since I have a hard disk of 280GB splitted to C: and D: (in windows) I gave Linux ~14GB of C:, the same where windows are. The installation went great, as I mentioned, it finished, restarted computer - voila, I have myself a fresh, shiny Ubuntu installed. Then I try to get to my Windows Vista. I restart the computer, GRUB menu appears, I choose "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader"... and it goes mad. It starts swearing and puking with errors, throws me a window with big red "ERROR" sign, and I turn off my laptop. I then try to turn it on again, it says "GRUB ERROR 22", or something along these lines, but something about Error 22.
Okay, I heard something about Vista being not-too-friendly to other OS's, but c'mon, I've seen people dual booting Vista and other Linux's all the time, so that _IS_ possible. Please, if someone had this problem or at least similar, and knows how to solve it, help me. ;)