INH
April 20th, 2010, 02:51 AM
I'm posting this here because I couldn't figure out where else to post it. Sorry if it's out of place!
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Beta 2 64-bit
Dual-boot with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Compaq CQ50-215NR laptop with 3GB system memory, 1.9GHz Athlon X2 QL-60 dual-core processor, nVIDIA GeForce 8200M G, 160GB HDD
Today I decided to install the BURG bootmenu on my computer so that I could enjoy nice, pretty graphical bootmenus instead of boring old text-based ones. I installed and configured BURG using this (http://nourlinux.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/get-animated-themed-icon-only-grub-menu-using-burg/) tutorial (after some few snafus wherein I tried to use older tutorials and went through many needless complicated steps that didn't end up working anyway). Restarted, and it worked great - except for one thing. Windows would no longer boot. It would get to the "Starting Windows" screen, then about halfway through there it would flash and restart. It wouldn't start in "Startup Repair Mode" either (the same thing happened). So, I did some frantic googling, and discovered this (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1393848.html) thread. I followed a set of instructions posted therein to install Lilo, reconfigure my MBR to Windows' liking, and reinstall Grub2. Windows booted after that. Well, I thought that the problem must have been caused by one of the numerous false starts I made while trying to get BURG installed, so I installed BURG again, set it up again, and bang - Windows wouldn't boot any more. So, I re-did the MBR with Lilo again, only this time I forgot to reinstall Grub2 (oops!) and had to boot from my LiveCD and install it thataway.
At any rate, I'm fairly certain that installing BURG is what's keeping Windows from booting. Does anybody know why this would be happening and/or have a workaround for it?
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Beta 2 64-bit
Dual-boot with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Compaq CQ50-215NR laptop with 3GB system memory, 1.9GHz Athlon X2 QL-60 dual-core processor, nVIDIA GeForce 8200M G, 160GB HDD
Today I decided to install the BURG bootmenu on my computer so that I could enjoy nice, pretty graphical bootmenus instead of boring old text-based ones. I installed and configured BURG using this (http://nourlinux.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/get-animated-themed-icon-only-grub-menu-using-burg/) tutorial (after some few snafus wherein I tried to use older tutorials and went through many needless complicated steps that didn't end up working anyway). Restarted, and it worked great - except for one thing. Windows would no longer boot. It would get to the "Starting Windows" screen, then about halfway through there it would flash and restart. It wouldn't start in "Startup Repair Mode" either (the same thing happened). So, I did some frantic googling, and discovered this (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1393848.html) thread. I followed a set of instructions posted therein to install Lilo, reconfigure my MBR to Windows' liking, and reinstall Grub2. Windows booted after that. Well, I thought that the problem must have been caused by one of the numerous false starts I made while trying to get BURG installed, so I installed BURG again, set it up again, and bang - Windows wouldn't boot any more. So, I re-did the MBR with Lilo again, only this time I forgot to reinstall Grub2 (oops!) and had to boot from my LiveCD and install it thataway.
At any rate, I'm fairly certain that installing BURG is what's keeping Windows from booting. Does anybody know why this would be happening and/or have a workaround for it?