crhis
February 20th, 2009, 01:10 AM
I am trying to install either ubuntu alongside xp. Xp was installed first and I am using it as a media center pc. I dont want to reformat because I have a lot of video and music on the xp side and nowhere to put it. When trying to install I get stuck on 94%, getting the fatal grub error. Ive tried using ext2 and changing where grub is installed to. I tried skipping the installation of grub and installing it later. When I tried typing "find /boot/grub/stage1" and it did not work. I then thought I new which drive I wanted to install on, hd(0,5), and I tried root (hd0,5) and I got the error "selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios". Please help, I have installed ubuntu before on many systems and run across problems before, but after a day of googling I gave up. My specs are
FOXCONN M61PMV AM2+ GF6100 RT
AMD|A64 X2 4800+ 2.5G AM2
2 gigs of ram
300 watt power supply
1.5 terabyte hdd
FOXCONN M61PMV AM2+ GF6100 RT
AMD|A64 X2 4800+ 2.5G AM2
2 gigs of ram
300 watt power supply
1.5 terabyte hdd