Continual Reboot

[Herman Munster]

I have had 10.04 LTS installed on my desktop along with Windows XP. Everything worked fine for quite some time, then all of a sudden my machine would to nothing but continually reboot upon startup before reaching the dual boot menu.

I wiped the drive and performed a clean install of Windows XP and all upgrades. The machine performed as expected and booted without fail. I then installed 10.04 LTS. The install ocurred without incident. On restart the machine began to continually reboot itself before reaching the dual boot menu.

I again wiped the drive and install just 10.04 LTS. Once again, the install occured without incident. On restart the machine began to continually reboot itself.

I again wiped the drive and installed Windows XP. The machine is behaving normally.

Since 10.04 LTS worked fine beforehand, I am completely stumped as to what could be the cause for not working now. Any insight is appreciated.

[dino99]

have you made an ubuntu install like this one:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10161428&postcount=2

[Herman Munster]

have you made an ubuntu install like this one:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10161428&postcount=2

No, I haven't. The initial install of 10.04 LTS was performed within Windows using the Windows Installer, which worked just fine for months on end.

[dino99]

No, I haven't. The initial install of 10.04 LTS was performed within Windows using the Windows Installer, which worked just fine for months on end.

so if you speak about wubi, its up to you

[Herman Munster]

so if you speak about wubi, its up to you

I suppose it is. I would just like to find out what is causing the problem after working flawlessly for approximately 6 months. I need the dual boot on this machine.

I have installed 10.04 LTS on my laptop as the only operating system without a problem for the same amount of time.

[mörgæs]

Wasn't it better to install Ubuntu next to ******* (a true double boot) rather than as a Wubi install?