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10/14/12 at 5:38am
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Hi all, Linux newbie here

I downloaded a Lubuntu 12.04 ISO (i386 Desktop) and I decided to dual boot it along with my XP installation. Yesterday I tried installing it with custom partition, The 1st partition is Windows XP NTFS (232 GB), I delete another (232GB) NTFS partition and create the /boot (500MB, primary), / (25GB), /home (220 GB) and swap (4GB). After it finish the installation, my comp reboot and a GRUB unknown partition error (grub rescue) shows up, I boot into Live CD and tried "boot-repair" recommended fix , no luck. So I reset the MBR back to Windows default and reformat the Linux partition back to NTFS.

Today, I decided to try install it again, this time, I tried custom partition without the /boot partition, after reboot, the GRUB error comes up again mad.gif, but this time it's partition not found error (grub rescue). I boot back to Live CD and I decided to left the installation to the default dual-boot partition (1st option). But the GRUB error comes up after reboot (again), same as the 2nd time, partition not found (grub rescue).

I got the boot-repair log here, only one though, The Lubuntu ISO md5 is the same as official md5
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1276973/

Help are greatly appreciated smile.gif
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10/14/12 at 7:32am
Try installing grub on your / or on your /boot partition.

This really is very wierd, but if it keeps happening, try using easyBCD on windows and just use the windows boot loader instead of grub. This will allow you to use hibernation on windows smile.gif
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10/14/12 at 8:08am
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Try installing grub on your / or on your /boot partition.
This really is very wierd, but if it keeps happening, try using easyBCD on windows and just use the windows boot loader instead of grub. This will allow you to use hibernation on windows smile.gif

Alright, I will have a look into the EasyBCD, gonna try it tomorrow, pretty late now. BTW aren't grub always located at MBR? Will moving it to / or /boot bring any difference compared to normal installation?

If this problem persist I might just switch to other distro. Maybe it only happen on Lubuntu tongue.gif
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10/14/12 at 3:17pm
No, it can be on the partitions. I suggested it because maybe windows is the bad guy in the story and there is a conflict in the MBR.

For instance, if you want to use easyBCD you would have to install grub on your linux boot partition, because easyBCD doesn't look for a linux install, it looks for a grub install.

I preffer using easyBCD to set up windows boot manager because I use hibernate a lot on my netbook, and it won't work with windows if it doesn't own the MBR.


I'm looking forward to seeing what is the cause of your problem. I'm guessing it has something to do with your windows still being XP.
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10/15/12 at 3:35am
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I just reinstall with Grub on the / folder, currently the MBR is the Windows XP default one. Apparently the EasyBCD is meant for Vista and Win 7 only. What should I do now? Currently my system will boot automatically into Windows
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10/15/12 at 10:54am
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I just reinstall with Grub on the / folder, currently the MBR is the Windows XP default one. Apparently the EasyBCD is meant for Vista and Win 7 only. What should I do now? Currently my system will boot automatically into Windows

No, check again, you can run it in windows XP!

You need .NET 2.0 framework installed on XP as a prerequirement. (It's already part of Vista/7).
You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=79bc3b77-e02c-4ad3-aacf-a7633f706ba5&displaylang=en

You are very close to completing your problem, all you need to do is get easyBCD running biggrin.gif
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10/15/12 at 10:23pm
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No, check again, you can run it in windows XP!
You need .NET 2.0 framework installed on XP as a prerequirement. (It's already part of Vista/7).
You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=79bc3b77-e02c-4ad3-aacf-a7633f706ba5&displaylang=en
You are very close to completing your problem, all you need to do is get easyBCD running biggrin.gif
I got the NET 2.0 (SP2) installed, but everytime the program starts. an error message pops up. Most settings are greyed out too. It says there're no entries in the bootloader



Can you guide me on the EasyBCD?
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10/16/12 at 5:41am
Using easyBCD and the windows bootloader is a cop out - GRUB can easily cope, and many, many machines are running dual-boots like you intend.

The errors from the pastebin hint the problem at being with the partitioning, which is a bit worrying. Did you partition the drive in Windows or Linux? I'd suggest re-installing Lubuntu, and do the partitioning in the installer. Leave sda1 well alone, as that's your Windows install. Delete the others, and then recreate them in the installer, and let it finish. When it asks about GRUB, install it to the MBR (the installer should automatically add Windows to the boot menu, along with Lubuntu)
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10/16/12 at 7:50am
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Using easyBCD and the windows bootloader is a cop out - GRUB can easily cope, and many, many machines are running dual-boots like you intend.
The errors from the pastebin hint the problem at being with the partitioning, which is a bit worrying. Did you partition the drive in Windows or Linux? I'd suggest re-installing Lubuntu, and do the partitioning in the installer. Leave sda1 well alone, as that's your Windows install. Delete the others, and then recreate them in the installer, and let it finish. When it asks about GRUB, install it to the MBR (the installer should automatically add Windows to the boot menu, along with Lubuntu)

I did partition the drive with the installer though, At first there are 2 partition, 1 Windows partition and 1 blank NTFS. During the installation, I delete the blank NTFS partition and create 1 root, 1 home and 1 swap. Lubuntu didn't ask me where to install the MBR like Debian, I believe the options is already at the installer partition tool section, which, in this case, left default (I believe the default option(sda, WD500GB) means to install GRUB on MBR). Is there anything I've done wrongly here?

EDIT: The options I mean is "Device for boot loader installation). The default option makes the installer install GRUB on MBR, right?


Thanks
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10/16/12 at 8:10am
Yeah, that's write for the bootloader.

Why does it talk about /dev/mapper? What's the config of the physical discs on this system? I'd assumed this was a simple 1 HDD/SSD system?
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