w2k/u7.10 dual-boot

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 3, 2008 7:58 PM,  <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Are there any gotchas to know about setting up a dual-boot W2K/ ubuntu 7.10
> system? In the five months I've had my emu1212m pci soundcard I have not
> been able to get it to work under linux. So, I thought I'd try a dual-boot
> with Windows 2000 to see if it works under that OS. I installed W2K first.
> Then I installed Ubuntu. Ubuntu suggested that if W2K would be the only
> other OS on this system that I should install grub to the Master Boot
> Record. So, that is what I did.

Seems your card should be supported in Gutsy since it ships with the
ALSA version said to be working in the thread below...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=441943

> Now I'm getting:
>
> ***STOP [various memory addresses] INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE [then comes the
> advice to check for viruses, remove newly installed hard drives/hard drive
> controllers, check hard drive configuration, run CHKDSK /F
>
> What happened? Ubuntu thought it would be okay...

Perhaps the windows partition resize operation did not go so well?
Run chkdsk.  But hey, once you go Ubuntu, and see all the naked people
on the desktop. you never go back :-)
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