[Discuss] Kubuntu install

[Steven Kurylo]

On 7/18/07, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Michael Foltinek wrote:
> > "smart bootmanager" will be able to list and boot your partitions. Do
> > a checkdisk (that's what it's called in Windows, right?) in Windows,
> > and if it says that the filesystem is NOT ok, then I'd give up.
> I have found that "smart bootmanager" can also mess up a Windows MBR.  I
> have done the check disk in Windows, and everything is all OK.  I
> suspect that my mistake was to let KUbuntu resize the Windows partition
> and to create LINUX partitions on the (Windows) C: drive (first IDE
> drive, primary master), but that was where I had the most available free
> space.

In the last year or two I've installed ubuntu on several dozen windows
machines, resizing the partition, and installing grub in the MBR
without issue.  In the past there have been problems, sure.  But not
in the last couple years.  I no longer even think about it.

> I have no problem in booting to Windows or KUbuntu using the floppy that
> KUbuntu created, so I can work effectively in WIndows when I wish to do
> so, but I would prefer to just have Windows boot normally if the floppy
> is not there.

Back up your current MBR ( and your data to be safe) and run windows
fixmbr and fixboot.  I always forget which does what specifically, so
I run both.  If it makes things worse, thats what the MBR backup is
for.

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Steven Kurylo