On 22/10/2007, Steve Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've had a play with 7.10 and it looks very good indeed; a lot of hard > work has gone into creating it and it works very well indeed. > > There seems to be a problem though for XP users who download the CD and > attempt to install it on an external USB device, either a disk or a > flash key, using a machine where there *already exists* a working copy > of Windows on the first internal IDE drive. Essentially, the install to > the USB device works just fine until right at the end when GRUB, usually > complaining first about the cylinders on the USB partition being more > than 1024 from start, dumps all over the existing Windows boot. > > I can see how and why this is happening; there are a number of ways > around it (I used Syslinux in the end) but I'm worried that a typical XP > user, who won't be able to recover from this, isn't going to be too > delighted. The installed Ubuntu won't boot and neither will XP anymore, > so the large amount of help and advice about what to do isn't even > available. There does seem to be a large demand for installing 7.10 > into this configuration and perhaps there should be a clear warning > somewhere *before* it's attempted? > > I just wondered what you guys thought? > > Cheers, Steve
I can't confirm this, or even advise on it. I would however point you towards submitting it as a bug. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs ;) -- Andrew Alexander Barber
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