First of all, thanks for the free product and support. I run a software company myself, and I know how difficult it can be to keep up with support threads and ungrateful users (note, if you're a customer of mine, I'm not talking about you
) Anyway, I've tried to be as thorough as possible and to include the exact error messages for SEO purposes. Alright, so I've been struggling with this the last 4 or 5 hours, and I'm finally ready to ask for some help after reading 30 odd threads and rebooting 15 or 20 times. Here's my setup:
- So next, I came here and read your wiki instructions. I then used the live CD executed the following commands successfully:
And GRUB seemed to install successfully. I followed this up by deleting the first Linux entry I had made.
- Now I added a new Linux entry with Type: GRUB, on Drive 0, Partition 0 which is my linux partition. I also reinstalled the Vista Bootloader from the Manage Bootloader toolbox. When I rebooted and selected the Linux entry, I am greeted with this error message:
Thanks for any help. I appreciate it.
Edit: I hate vBulletin. For some reason it stripped out all of my line breaks and I had to edit this a bunch to make it readable again.
- hd0 Kubuntu 7.1 with Grub installed to hd0,0. This is an IDE drive.
- hd1 Windows Vista Ultimate. This is a SATA2 drive.
Code:
Unrecognized partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it
using a Microsoft compatible FDISK tool(err=28)
- So next, I came here and read your wiki instructions. I then used the live CD executed the following commands successfully:
Code:
sudo bash
grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
quit
- Now I added a new Linux entry with Type: GRUB, on Drive 0, Partition 0 which is my linux partition. I also reinstalled the Vista Bootloader from the Manage Bootloader toolbox. When I rebooted and selected the Linux entry, I am greeted with this error message:
Code:
BootPart 2.60 (c) 1993-2005 Gilles Vollant http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
Loading new partition Bootsector from C.H. Hochstätter
Cannot load from harddisk. Insert System disk and press any key.
Edit: I hate vBulletin. For some reason it stripped out all of my line breaks and I had to edit this a bunch to make it readable again.
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