steveyos666
November 5th, 2008, 05:14 AM
On my main hard drive (which isn't USB, it's sata) I use Vista. I was trying to install ubuntu on my cousin's PC. I burned the disk, then put it back in the drive to test it out. I noticed there's this option to install ubuntu right into windows. I haven't used ubuntu in forever so I figured this meant I could run ubuntu in a virtual machine inside of vista. I still don't know if that's possible so if anyone could give me a tip on that I'd appreciate it since it seems to only be a boot option when I turn the pc on, and that's just weird becuase it says performance is slightly slower but that just seems like a typical dual boot. However, that's not the main problem.
After that, I was still having problems getting ubuntu onto my cousin's pc. So, I figured I'd try to install ubuntu onto my USB drive, through my pc, then just give it to him to boot up from his pc. That didn't work though, because his computer was too old to boot from usb. However now, like I said, I'm getting Error 21 when trying to boot the grub loader or whatever it is when my computer first turns on, unless that USB drive is plugged in. I've even tried uninstalling that in-vista ubuntu install and booting without the USB drive but it still does it. I've tried reinstalling that and it still does it. It seems to somehow rely on that USB drive.
So basically I'm trying to just for now get rid of everything linux/grub/whatever-related so I can just get it back to booting vista normally without needing my USB drive. Once I get that back, can someone tell me if there's a way to run the in-vista install of ubuntu on a virtual machine? That would seem like that's what it's supposed to be for. But at least help me get rid of this Error 21, please.
After that, I was still having problems getting ubuntu onto my cousin's pc. So, I figured I'd try to install ubuntu onto my USB drive, through my pc, then just give it to him to boot up from his pc. That didn't work though, because his computer was too old to boot from usb. However now, like I said, I'm getting Error 21 when trying to boot the grub loader or whatever it is when my computer first turns on, unless that USB drive is plugged in. I've even tried uninstalling that in-vista ubuntu install and booting without the USB drive but it still does it. I've tried reinstalling that and it still does it. It seems to somehow rely on that USB drive.
So basically I'm trying to just for now get rid of everything linux/grub/whatever-related so I can just get it back to booting vista normally without needing my USB drive. Once I get that back, can someone tell me if there's a way to run the in-vista install of ubuntu on a virtual machine? That would seem like that's what it's supposed to be for. But at least help me get rid of this Error 21, please.