mjp216
April 28th, 2008, 07:58 AM
okay, ill start off blunt.
when i turn my (Acer 4620z) laptop on.
i get my nice pleasant "ACER" boot sceen.
now good ol' GRUB loader pops its way up.
my options are:(kinda paraphrased)
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (recovery)
-----Other OSes-------
Windows Vista Home Premium
Winodows loader(Longhorn)
When i chose either Hardy, or Hardy recovery... no problem.... beautiful (linux pwns)
But when i go to any of the Vista loaders
my options are:
Acer eRecovery
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (Recovered)
acer erovery work fine but they forgot to preinstall my recovery partition correctly >:(
when i go to vista i get the lame vista little green loady bar for about a min
then... yay!.... the vista emblem thing glows, makes a "ding-DIINNG!" noise, as it should
but.... bum bum bum!!! i get a cursor, and a black screen for say 40secs.. then...... it reboots.... thats all..... it reboots... back to my happy acer bootscreen.
so... i went in ubuntu and i opened vmware workstation. i set up a vista vm on the physical drive, and i get: (Typed EXACTLY)
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
ok, i have no clue at all what to do, where to start but, w/e, help me please, sorry for the long story, and ill post additional info below..
My hard drive:
/dev/sda1 FAT32 -09.67GB
/dev/sda2 NTFS <VISTA> -69.65GB
/dev/sda3 extended: -04.99GB (2.8GB/2.1GB)
/dev/sda5 SWAP
/dev/sda6 [none]
/dev/sda4 EXT3 <UBUNTU> -64.64GB
unallocated -7.44MB
unallocated -3.22MB
when i turn my (Acer 4620z) laptop on.
i get my nice pleasant "ACER" boot sceen.
now good ol' GRUB loader pops its way up.
my options are:(kinda paraphrased)
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (recovery)
-----Other OSes-------
Windows Vista Home Premium
Winodows loader(Longhorn)
When i chose either Hardy, or Hardy recovery... no problem.... beautiful (linux pwns)
But when i go to any of the Vista loaders
my options are:
Acer eRecovery
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (Recovered)
acer erovery work fine but they forgot to preinstall my recovery partition correctly >:(
when i go to vista i get the lame vista little green loady bar for about a min
then... yay!.... the vista emblem thing glows, makes a "ding-DIINNG!" noise, as it should
but.... bum bum bum!!! i get a cursor, and a black screen for say 40secs.. then...... it reboots.... thats all..... it reboots... back to my happy acer bootscreen.
so... i went in ubuntu and i opened vmware workstation. i set up a vista vm on the physical drive, and i get: (Typed EXACTLY)
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
ok, i have no clue at all what to do, where to start but, w/e, help me please, sorry for the long story, and ill post additional info below..
My hard drive:
/dev/sda1 FAT32 -09.67GB
/dev/sda2 NTFS <VISTA> -69.65GB
/dev/sda3 extended: -04.99GB (2.8GB/2.1GB)
/dev/sda5 SWAP
/dev/sda6 [none]
/dev/sda4 EXT3 <UBUNTU> -64.64GB
unallocated -7.44MB
unallocated -3.22MB