Dual Booting Ubuntu with existing XP

[D3PART3D]

Whe I grow up, I want to be just as nerdy as you :biggrin: Now suggest some books

[Judas]

Whe I grow up, I want to be just as nerdy as you :biggrin: Now suggest some books

Keep working on it and you'll get there... It's been a long, hard road to nerdiness, but with dedication it can be done!

Well, your choice of books would depend on the particular brand of nerdiness that you're going for. If it's computer nerd you want, nothing shouts "I have no life!" like keeping Steve McConnell's Code Complete 2 on your bedside table.

If you're looking to become a psychology nerd, Grieger & Boyd's Rational Emotive Therapy: A Skills Based Approach comes very, very highly recommended, as does Carl Rogers & Barry Stevens' Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human.

[D3PART3D]

Thank you, I'll go look for them! (I suppose Code Complete 2 should wait until after I know my basic C++...)

Antispam - DJT, you need to be a nerd to fix this problem. Read said books.

[DJT]

rofl, rofl, rofl, lolocopter. Anyway, seriously, you just need to add Windows to your grub list.

From a gnome terminal

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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

then add

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title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
root		(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader	+1

to the end of the file, save, exit and restart

There's your grub problem... This:

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root		(hd0,0)

Should be:

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rootnoverify (hd0,4)

I did as you said, changed the root to rootnoverify. It now comes up with a invalid device error or something. THink error 12
I'm sorry I'm being so annoying guys

@D33, yip, the only reason I can't fix this is because I actually have a life

[Judas]

rofl, rofl, rofl, lolocopter. Anyway, seriously, you just need to add Windows to your grub list.

From a gnome terminal

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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

then add

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title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
root		(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader	+1

to the end of the file, save, exit and restart

There's your grub problem... This:

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root		(hd0,0)

Should be:

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rootnoverify (hd0,4)

I did as you said, changed the root to rootnoverify. It now comes up with a invalid device error or something. THink error 12
I'm sorry I'm being so annoying guys

@D33, yip, the only reason I can't fix this is because I actually have a life

Hmmm, I think your grub partition numbering isn't quite matching up to the Linux numbering... Try changing that to rootnoverify (hd0,1).

EDIT: And if that doesn't work, try rootnoverify (hd0,0).

[WAJeff]

If you still getting errors try that app I linked you to earlier. Its worked everytime for me