Today I finally managed to get a new partition out of XP's partition, which takes up the whole drive normally. Downloaded Ubuntu 9.10, Desktop Edition, and burned it to a DVD. Once I got to the partition selector, I picked the Use Largest Contiguous Free Space option, and it made a 15.5 GB ext4 chunk and a 748 MB swap chunk. At around 94%, however, it tells me "GRUB failed to install into /target/. Without the bootloader, whatever about not being able to get to the OS" The computer I have is a 3-or-so year old Dell XPS 410. It has Windows XP Home Edition kept current with updates. There are 2 hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration, and I found some veeery vague comments about existing RAID setups somewhere. The Ubuntu documentation site hasn't really helped me fix this. Any FP Linux pros know what I'm doing wrong?
[url=http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=54263]Two seconds on Google.[/url]
I already saw that one, the commands don't exist anymore.
Something I forgot: When the setup progresses to the Import Documents screen, Ubuntu doesn't see any other OS to import from, even though XP Home is installed on the C: partition.
Ok, possibly solved. I directed GRUB to ARRAY5 and the installer has finished.
[editline]10:11PM[/editline]
Woohoo, GRUB works. Now I'm locked out of XP because GRUB still doesn't see it.
[QUOTE=TheLolrus;19815775]I already saw that one, the commands don't exist anymore.
Something I forgot: When the setup progresses to the Import Documents screen, Ubuntu doesn't see any other OS to import from, even though XP Home is installed on the C: partition.
Ok, possibly solved. I directed GRUB to ARRAY5 and the installer has finished.
[editline]10:11PM[/editline]
Woohoo, GRUB works. Now I'm locked out of XP because GRUB still doesn't see it.[/QUOTE]
try using this to fix your grub
[url]http://www.supergrubdisk.org/[/url]
the website is naff, the boot disc is VERY useful.
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