w2k/u7.10 dual-boot

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:58:11PM -0500, 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. 
> 
> 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... 

It should be.  Did you touch the windows partition at all during the
install of ubuntu?  I have never in the past had any issues with a dual
boot install with windows installed first and then installing the boot
loader to the MBR.

What is your partition layout?

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