Sheepdawg
Joined: Jan 21, 2011
Posts: 270
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:55 pm
Sheepdawg got a little crazy the past few days. Every once in a while i like to check out the Linux side of things. So i got Ubuntu 10.10 and installed it. Restarted and it worked great. Dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu. Then Ubuntu was all "I can haz updatez?" So i said sure why not. 250+ updates later it says "I can haz Grub?" Now it said skip but i had no idea what Grub was. SO i said sure buddy, go ahead and grab whtat you need. Restarted, POST, verifying DMI pool.....ERROR GRUB RESCUE.
OH NOES!!!! So after many trips to #ubuntu and #windows i finally stopped trying to take the quick easy way out, burnt a Win 7 iso to DVD and here i am, back together, but with a new win7.
But hey, i dont mind. Reformattied PC's are super sexy, and fast to boot.
So a word of warning to those of you wantign to dual boot win and linux. Make sure u have an actual drive(not a partition of ur HD0) when installing it. If you do install linux on a partitioned 'drive' on HD0 then DO NOT install GRUB. Skip it, i promise you will be fine. If you have C:/ on HD0, and D:/ on HD1 then you are able to instal GRUB no problem.
FFR, Grub is Linux's equivilent to Windows MBR( Master Boot Record).
Also you are able to just run Ubuntu as a 'Live' session without installing it, so that may be the way to go as well.
OH NOES!!!! So after many trips to #ubuntu and #windows i finally stopped trying to take the quick easy way out, burnt a Win 7 iso to DVD and here i am, back together, but with a new win7.
But hey, i dont mind. Reformattied PC's are super sexy, and fast to boot.
So a word of warning to those of you wantign to dual boot win and linux. Make sure u have an actual drive(not a partition of ur HD0) when installing it. If you do install linux on a partitioned 'drive' on HD0 then DO NOT install GRUB. Skip it, i promise you will be fine. If you have C:/ on HD0, and D:/ on HD1 then you are able to instal GRUB no problem.
FFR, Grub is Linux's equivilent to Windows MBR( Master Boot Record).
Also you are able to just run Ubuntu as a 'Live' session without installing it, so that may be the way to go as well.