I just registered here and am pretty new to both ubuntu and dual booting, though I did have a triple boot setup about a year ago w/ ubuntu, xp64 and xp32... but it seems like everything changes too fast for that to come in handy with my current goal!
I just got an Acer AspireOne AO751H 11.6" netbook x86 (1.33ghz Intel Atom and GA-500 video chip)
It came with Vista Home premium, but I took advantage of the student special on Windows 7 from www.win741.com and downloaded a legit version of win7 professional x86 for only 30 bucks. I burned a bootable .ISO of this and did a complete install (not an upgrade) over Vista. This went surprisingly well without any problems and not too much time.
I had problems finding a windows X client I need for work, say cygwin or xming, and also had problems installing emacs and gnuplot on win7. So I decided to try out Wubi, and installed Ubuntu 9.10 . I should mention the drive was not manually partitioned by me, so I assume it has the 10gb recovery partition, the new win7 boot area, and the main system partition only. I was also surprised that this *seemed* to work so easily. Its a very cool idea after all. But there is some problem where after it finished installing and rebooted, and I downloaded some apps through Ubuntu Application Center, and then installed all the updates through Synptic Package manager, the thing wouldn t reboot. I had an error
"ath5k phy0 : noise floor calibration timeout 2447Mhz" over and over
related to my network card and my video was messed up and, being a novice, I figured the easiest fix was simply to uninstall and reinstall using wubi, which worked *at first*. But then once I finished installing apps and updates, when I tried to reboot I got the now-famous
"2.708634 kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,2)"
error message which people on forums have seemed to deduce is being caused by the latest synaptic updates through Ubuntu. But I also seem to see only Wubi users with this error, so I don't believe anyone really knows a work around for it yet.
Anyway I am HERE because I thought I would try uninstalling Wubi, creating a partition using Windows7 diskmanagement, burning an Ubuntu Live cd and formatting new partition for ext4, and using the Easy BCD 2.0 Beta (which is Grub2 compatible I hear) to install Ubuntu 9.10 on the ext4 partition. I don't have a preference whether to use Grub2 or windows MBR, though I have a feeling using Win7 would be easier.
1) Does my plan make sense?
1.5) How do I really do all this?
2) Does anyone know whether Ubuntu 9.10 (non-Wubi) will still exhibit the kernel panic?
3) Thanks!
I just got an Acer AspireOne AO751H 11.6" netbook x86 (1.33ghz Intel Atom and GA-500 video chip)
It came with Vista Home premium, but I took advantage of the student special on Windows 7 from www.win741.com and downloaded a legit version of win7 professional x86 for only 30 bucks. I burned a bootable .ISO of this and did a complete install (not an upgrade) over Vista. This went surprisingly well without any problems and not too much time.
I had problems finding a windows X client I need for work, say cygwin or xming, and also had problems installing emacs and gnuplot on win7. So I decided to try out Wubi, and installed Ubuntu 9.10 . I should mention the drive was not manually partitioned by me, so I assume it has the 10gb recovery partition, the new win7 boot area, and the main system partition only. I was also surprised that this *seemed* to work so easily. Its a very cool idea after all. But there is some problem where after it finished installing and rebooted, and I downloaded some apps through Ubuntu Application Center, and then installed all the updates through Synptic Package manager, the thing wouldn t reboot. I had an error
"ath5k phy0 : noise floor calibration timeout 2447Mhz" over and over
related to my network card and my video was messed up and, being a novice, I figured the easiest fix was simply to uninstall and reinstall using wubi, which worked *at first*. But then once I finished installing apps and updates, when I tried to reboot I got the now-famous
"2.708634 kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,2)"
error message which people on forums have seemed to deduce is being caused by the latest synaptic updates through Ubuntu. But I also seem to see only Wubi users with this error, so I don't believe anyone really knows a work around for it yet.
Anyway I am HERE because I thought I would try uninstalling Wubi, creating a partition using Windows7 diskmanagement, burning an Ubuntu Live cd and formatting new partition for ext4, and using the Easy BCD 2.0 Beta (which is Grub2 compatible I hear) to install Ubuntu 9.10 on the ext4 partition. I don't have a preference whether to use Grub2 or windows MBR, though I have a feeling using Win7 would be easier.
1) Does my plan make sense?
1.5) How do I really do all this?
2) Does anyone know whether Ubuntu 9.10 (non-Wubi) will still exhibit the kernel panic?
3) Thanks!
