w2k/u7.10 dual-boot

Mon Feb 11 19:48:47 UTC 2008

Teddy Mills writes: 

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> ubuntu 7.1
> apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager 
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> I think compiz tries for functionality, and less concerned with eye-candy.

Wat is it? A boot loader? I tried installing it: 

chris at bpc:~$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity 

Chris 

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> chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Lennart Sorensen writes:
>>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:10:03PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>>> This is uncharted territory so I don't know if you'll want to hazard
>>>> a guess. What do you think the chances are that this problem would
>>>> be rectified by doing the W2K/u7.10 dual-boot installation again,
>>>> this time with W2K on ntfs? 
>>>> I just don't want to waste a couple of hours if there's no hope. 
>>>> I seem to recall there was some scenario in which the bootloader
>>>> should be installed on the "first sector of the boot partition"
>>>> instead of the MBR. Maybe that's for a dual-boot of W98 and NT or
>>>> somesuch (and nothing to do with linux). Does that ring a bell? 
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>>> I used to do that back when I used to reinstall windows every 3 months
>>> (generally a good idea with win9x), and windows would overwrite the MBR
>>> every time, so having the boot loader on the first primary linux
>>> partition meant I could get the system booting normally again simply by
>>> changing the active partition in fdisk from dos to be the linux
>>> partition instead of the C: partition.  The MBR stayed as the generic
>>> 'boot the partition with the bootable flag'.
>>> Since I no longer reinstall windows (or install in the first place) on
>>> my machines, I just install GRUB in the mbr and don't have any
>>> partitions flagged bootable.  Windows does seem to insist on having a
>>> bootable partition so marking C: bootable might be a good idea.
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>> Okay, I was able to install a u7.10/W2K dual-boot on another computer,
>> So, now I know it can be done. Hard drive failure seems unlikely as I
>> am able to install either OS on the drive, just not both at the same
>> time. I'm wondering if it's the hard drive *model* that's a problem. I
>> had the same problem on two identical hard drives - they are WD 160 GB
>> drives. The other thing is that maybe my motherboard/BIOS doesn't like
>> this dual-boot scenario.
>> Would it be worth trying taking the hard drive, installing the
>> dual-boot on the computer an which the dual-boot installation works,
>> then remove the hard drive and re-install the hard drive (not the OS)
>> on the computer I want it on? Obviously some drivers and things will
>> change as the hard drive will now have a new computer home. Is that
>> even worth trying?
>> In the meantime I'll ask the tech at Krazy Krazy (where I bought the
>> hard drives) if there is anything about these hard drives that he can
>> think of that would cause a problem dual-booting.
>> I have had other dual-boot (linux/Windows) installations on the
>> computer I want this on, so I know the motherboard/BIOS doesn't reject
>> dual-boots as a rule - but this one scenario or this one hard drive
>> model is a problem...
>> Chris 
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>>> Do NOT resize the windows partition while installing linux.  I wouldn't
>>> trust it to get that right.
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