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Dual Boot Hangs for XP Ubuntu 6.06

Asked by SneakPeak

Hi All,

Just installed Ubuntu 6.06 with what I hoped would be a dual boot with Windows XP. Ubuntu is working fine and I can see all the files and folders on my NTFS parition from Ubuntu so I know my windows is still there. I just cannot get XP to boot. When I select XP from the gurb menu my system hangs. If I reboot and go back to the grub menu and select XP I get an option to select safe mode. I select safe mode and I get a whole list of things scrolling down the screen in windows/system32/.... The last one listed is Myup.sys and the system then hangs.

When I did my installation I got a live CD with g-parted software on it. I compressed my XP partition and then created a 15GB ext3 partition, a 1GB swap partition and a 1GB fat32 partition. After this partitioning but before the ubuntu install my XP booted and worked 100%.

During installation it appears Ubuntu detected and used the partitions I created correctly. (I think so at least, I am not 100% sure how to check but as I said I can still see all the stuff on my orignal C: drive from Ubuntu so it seems its there and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. I even opened 1 or 2 files in read only mode)

I am very concerned that other people have had to do a complete re-install to fix this problem. Can anyone help without the need to re-install XP?

Thanks

SneakPeak

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

You can try with a chkdsk, from the Win recovery console first.
I have no idea what Myup.sys, if you can write down exactly any error message you see and report them back that would really help.

Thanks.

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Best SneakPeak (adrian-geekiegroup) said : 		#2

Hi All,

Problem Solved:

When I installed Ubuntu I had to disable ACIP for APIC in the BIOS otherwise the Ubuntu install CD would not install. When I was finished I forgot that I had disabled the ACIP for APIC in the BIOS. After trying the recover disc and supergrub without success I remembered the ACIP / APIC thing and I went in and changed it back. Windows booted no problem and strangely Ubuntu also boots. Seems Ubuntu was only affected by this during installation.

Thanks for offering advice.

Cheers

Adrian

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SneakPeak (adrian-geekiegroup) said : 		#3

Hi All,

Further update. Seems my ACIP / APIC problem is back. Ubuntu won't boot with ACIP for APIC enabled and XP won't boot with it disabled. I get kernal panic messages. Going to search the archives to see if I can solve this.

Adrian

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Danny H. Spann (dspann1250) said : 		#4

Good Day All,
I just loaded ubuntu from a copied cd. when I tried to reboot my computer I get the following message:
Booting From logical disk
GRUB loading stage 1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait
ERROR 18

I restarted my computer with the install disk and got the following message:

{200.396000} Buffer I/O error on logical block fd0
{200.616000} Buffer I/O error on logical block fd0

Please help me !!!
Thanks
Danny

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SneakPeak (adrian-geekiegroup) said : 		#5

Danny,

I would recommend posting this problem as a new question. You may get a better response. I am afraid that I am a compelete novice at this stuff so I cant really offer advice. What I can say is it might be worthwhile to down load super grub. Just google super grub and you should find it. It is an ISO disk image. As long as you have some CD writing software choose the option to burn an ISO image and then select the super grub image you have downloaded. You wil then have a bootable CD. When your PC boots hit delete to go into the BIOS set up and tell the machine to boot from CD. Super gurb will then boot and it gives you lots of options to fix boot problems and boot old existing versions of Windows etc. I hope that helps.

By the way I don't know but is fd0 not a floppy disk? Is your machine not trying to boot from floppy?

Good luck

Adrian

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SneakPeak (adrian-geekiegroup) said : 		#6

Hi All,

My acpi problem is very intermitant. I would say in 1 out of 4 boots it is a problem. I then just reboot and it goes straight through. I have had some advice off the Ubuntu forum to use "acpi=off" option in the menu.lst file. I am going to give it a try when I am back home to see if it works. I am pretty sure it will.

Cheers

Sneak Peak