dual boot HP Pavilion dv9000

[ronbrooks]

I have picked up a HP Pavilion dv9000 and wanted to know if anyone has dual boot one. I have read that there is some trouble with Ubuntu 8.04.

If you have was there any trouble installing it or was there any issues with running the OS.

Thank you for your help.

[Pumalite]

Post your specs.

[ronbrooks]

HP Pailion dv9700, amd Turion 64 X 2, Ram 1024MB, Nvidia MCP67M, HD 230GB, DVD A DS8A1P Slimtype.

[Pumalite]

Install with the Alternate CD
These are the known issues:
http://aldeby.org/blog/?page_id=87
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=431815
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582220

[AppleNerd]

The main issue is with the crappy (IMO) AMD processor. Everything else would normally work fine.

[newby4447]

Ronbrooks: I'm a newby to Ubuntu. I've had Ubuntu installed as dual boot for about six months on an HP Pavilion a1010y machine running a Pentium 4 cpu and a Sata hard drive. The one hard drive is partitioned for Ubuntu on one side, Win XP on the other. The dual boot option has worked just fine, right up until I downloaded the Ubuntu 8.04 upgrade. After the Ubuntu 8.04 version downloaded and installed, I found I could no longer boot to the Win XP side because the character string that causes that to happen is now missing from the boot menu. A friend of mine who is also running Ubuntu 8.04 on a laptop has had the same experience: Win XP no longer boots. Although this represents an annoyance, I remain confident a fix will be coming along soon. When I first installed Ubuntu (the install CD came with a Ubuntu book written by Kier Thomas), the install and partition of C: drive went flawlessly and effortlessly. But if you plan to run both Ubuntu and one of the MS Windows versions, I would (speaking as a newby) recommend you consider installing the two operating systems on separate hard drives.