bollschweiler
August 10th, 2011, 10:48 PM
I don't have access to a CDROM drive or a USB flash drive. I have access to three IDE hard-drives (let's call them S="source", T="target", and E="extra"), and a single USB enclosure.
On S there are two partitions; on the first partition, Windows 7 is installed, and on the second, Windows 2000 is installed. Wubi was executed within Windows 2000 and Ubuntu installed on that same partition.
On booting, the Windows 7 boot selector is shown; it now includes Ubuntu as an option, but selecting this option fails. However, upon selecting Windows 2000 from the Windows 7 boot menu, a Windows 2000 boot menu appears; Ubuntu is an option here and booting is successful.
From Ubuntu, I ran LVPM in order to copy this installation onto drive T, which had been loaded into the USB enclosure. This procedure completed successfully. However, when I removed T from the USB enclosure and placed it in the primary internal IDE hard-drive slot, a grub boot menu appeared. The options on the grub menu were "UnknownOS" and "Windows 7 (loader)". Selecting either of these resulted in failure.
Consequently, I would like to try a different approach. I would like to install Ubuntu to T from within the Wubi Ubuntu on S. Alternatively, perhaps it would be possible to alter the boot sequence on T in order for it to boot directly into Ubuntu.
Thanks in advance!
nate
On S there are two partitions; on the first partition, Windows 7 is installed, and on the second, Windows 2000 is installed. Wubi was executed within Windows 2000 and Ubuntu installed on that same partition.
On booting, the Windows 7 boot selector is shown; it now includes Ubuntu as an option, but selecting this option fails. However, upon selecting Windows 2000 from the Windows 7 boot menu, a Windows 2000 boot menu appears; Ubuntu is an option here and booting is successful.
From Ubuntu, I ran LVPM in order to copy this installation onto drive T, which had been loaded into the USB enclosure. This procedure completed successfully. However, when I removed T from the USB enclosure and placed it in the primary internal IDE hard-drive slot, a grub boot menu appeared. The options on the grub menu were "UnknownOS" and "Windows 7 (loader)". Selecting either of these resulted in failure.
Consequently, I would like to try a different approach. I would like to install Ubuntu to T from within the Wubi Ubuntu on S. Alternatively, perhaps it would be possible to alter the boot sequence on T in order for it to boot directly into Ubuntu.
Thanks in advance!
nate