problems after installing karmic

[Rakesh arky Ambati]

Hi, 

This is well known problem, have a look the release notes Karmic Alpha 3 

If you install Karmic Alpha 3 alongside Windows, the grub boot menu may not offer to start Windows. (bug #402795) 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/TechnicalOverview#Known%20issues

Cheers

--arky

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati | IT Consultant |http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com


--- On Sat, 25/7/09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel <chmiel at phil.muni.cz> wrote:

> From: Mgr. Janusz Chmiel <chmiel at phil.muni.cz>
> Subject: Re: problems after installing karmic
> To: "Rakesh arky Ambati" <rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com>, "ubuntu" <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>, "mike" <kb8aey at verizon.net>
> Date: Saturday, 25 July, 2009, 1:46 PM
> Dear users,
> 
>    I have tried The procedure, which can
> guarantee You, that YOu will be able to boot to Windows Xp
> if YOu will remove Linux operating system according to my
> directions.
> 
>    If You will not be able to boot to
> Windows XP, You are having two possibility.
> 1. Remove partitions, which are used by Ubuntu Karmic, I Am
> strongly recommending You to rather use stable live CD for
> removing and modifiing The partitions, because kernel of
> development releases can be unstable. Use gparted only in
> Live CD mode while YOu will boot from this live CD.
> 
> Or You would try to manually edit Grub configuration file
> and specifi to boot WIndows XP. try to please a sighted
> person, if there is item for starting Windows XP. If no,
> installation program for Karmic did not add The Grub
> configuration for starting Windows XP. Try to look at The
> partitions, if You did not removed NTFS partition.
> 
> 
> So how to remove Linux safely and how to recover Windows
> SXP to be bootable again?
> 
> Boot from a stable Ubuntu live CD, I Am strongly
> recommending You to boot from Ubuntu Jaunty official
> release.
> 
> Use gparted to remove Linux based partitions. Before
> removing Linux svap, disable it by using F10 function key
> and right arrow key to get to The partition sub menu. And
> press down arrow key until YOu will hear svap off.
> 
> This will disable svap file. Because Linux kernel will
> probably use Your svap file eventhough You will boot from A
> live CD. Linux kernel is loving The svap file very much, and
> if it will see this partition, kernel will start to use it.
> 
> When You will have svap file off, You can remove Linux
> svap, and extended partition. You can also remove EXT4
> partition if You will experiment with Ubuntu Karmic, EXT3
> file system will be used while using older Ubuntu releases.
> 
> When you will have removed all Linux partitions, restart
> Your computer with Ubuntu live CD on YOur CD boot drive.
> Start gparted again and when cursor will be on a NTFS
> partition, explore The Gparted menus to find The flags sub
> menu. Enable The boot flag in The dialog box. Your NTFS
> partition must be bootable, so The boot flag must be turned
> on.
> 
> Apply the changes and restart Your computer without Ubuntu
> live CD. I found out, that by using boot flag, The boot
> sector will be working fine and Your WIndows XP will very
> probably start fine without problems.
> 
> There is also other procedure, so user have to use The
> console and before triing to install other operating system,
> user can backup several sectors of his hard drive to The
> floppy drive or to The USB disk. I can explain both
> procedures for this. I Am not author of those procedures.
> One professional from GRML E-mail conference described this
> procedure for backing up sectors to USE or to A floppy
> drive. I will try to send A direct link to his article,
> eventhough The whole article is focused on installing GRML,
> The procedure for backing up and restoring from this backup
> is included.
> 
> I tried The procedure for recovering Windows XP to The boot
> state after removing Linux distro. I tried this procedure
> for Opensuse, but i think, that boot flags will be working
> fine, because i used Gparted from Ubuntu to set The NTFS
> boot flag TO The on state.
> 
> 
> 


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