mdawg414
June 24th, 2008, 10:03 AM
So for the last couple of weeks, I have been transitioning from XP to Ubuntu and for the most part it has been pretty seamless. However, I quickly found that there were several programs that pretty much just work on Windows. I played around with 'wine' a little bit but wasn't too impressed. So basically here was the setup I had on my 90GB HD:
/dev/sda1 was 10GB formatted to ext2 (this is where my windows installation was going to go)
/dev/sda2 was an extended filesystem of 80GB with the following sub-filesystems:
/dev/sda5 (linux-swap) 260 MB
/dev/sda6 (ext3) 83GB
/dev/sda5 had the boot flag set and then all of the operating system files for ubuntu and whatnot were put in sda6. This was working fine and I even set up a virtual machine with vmware that was running windows off of the 10GB other partition i had but found that it was just too slow. So I went to install windows xp the correct way (i.e. booted from the installation disk) and it installed fine but the problem is that it overwrote my boot drive or something and now only boots to XP. Ideally, it would go to the GRUB boot loader and let me choose, but frankly, I have nothing on the 10GB partition and everything on the 80GB one so I really don't care at this point if the 10GB one works or not.
I tried booting from the ubuntu CD and going into test mode from the CD. From there I could play around with the partition manager and found that the boot flag had in fact been removed from sda5. In the partition manager, I deleted the 10GB partition (so now its just unallocated space) and left sda5 and sda6. The data is still there on sda6 btw. So basically, I need to figure out a way to reinstall GRUB or some sort of boot loader on sda5 so that I can load the operating system on sda6. I tried setting the boot flag on sda5 and restarting but I get the error "Operating System not found"
Any brilliant ideas out there? Thanks a million.
/dev/sda1 was 10GB formatted to ext2 (this is where my windows installation was going to go)
/dev/sda2 was an extended filesystem of 80GB with the following sub-filesystems:
/dev/sda5 (linux-swap) 260 MB
/dev/sda6 (ext3) 83GB
/dev/sda5 had the boot flag set and then all of the operating system files for ubuntu and whatnot were put in sda6. This was working fine and I even set up a virtual machine with vmware that was running windows off of the 10GB other partition i had but found that it was just too slow. So I went to install windows xp the correct way (i.e. booted from the installation disk) and it installed fine but the problem is that it overwrote my boot drive or something and now only boots to XP. Ideally, it would go to the GRUB boot loader and let me choose, but frankly, I have nothing on the 10GB partition and everything on the 80GB one so I really don't care at this point if the 10GB one works or not.
I tried booting from the ubuntu CD and going into test mode from the CD. From there I could play around with the partition manager and found that the boot flag had in fact been removed from sda5. In the partition manager, I deleted the 10GB partition (so now its just unallocated space) and left sda5 and sda6. The data is still there on sda6 btw. So basically, I need to figure out a way to reinstall GRUB or some sort of boot loader on sda5 so that I can load the operating system on sda6. I tried setting the boot flag on sda5 and restarting but I get the error "Operating System not found"
Any brilliant ideas out there? Thanks a million.