[DC LoCo] Help, have I bricked my netbook? (@#^&!* GRUB)

[Chuck Glenn]

I'm glad to hear you fixed it.

My laptop and desktop both have 2 physical hard drives (one OS each).  I've
had decent luck running Windows 7 under virtualbox 4 from inside Ubuntu
10.10 (for anything Wine doesn't support, like GPS and MP3 player firmware
updaters, VitalSource eBook reader, Adobe Flash developer).

-- Chuck

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:39 PM, N.C. Weber <ncweber00 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Yeah, I never dual/multi boot any OS. Just too many ways it can go pear
> shaped.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Maag <eric.maag at gmail.com>
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> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:15:24
> To: <chuck.kv3g at gmail.com>
> Cc: <ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] Help, have I bricked my netbook? (@#^&!* GRUB)
>
> Collected wisdom,
>
> I was able to fix the problem. I was able to boot off a live disk and
> able to edit the grub file that way. It's definitely a relief I didn't
> need to chuck it out the window.
>
> Thanks for everyone's advice. I will never use WUBI again.
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Chuck Glenn <chuck.kv3g at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the boot issue might be a simple one.  Windows has the boot drive
> > and partition hard-coded in the boot.ini file of the boot drive. Edit
> your
> > boot.ini file and try changing the digits in this line:
> >
> > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> >
> > I cannot tell you what values should go there--that would be based on
> your
> > disks, partitions, and where Windows is actually installed.
> >
> > -- Chuck
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Eric Maag <eric.maag at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Collected wisdom,
> >>
> >> Please help me you're my only hope! So I own a Acer Aspire One D250
> >> netbook, and I had Ubuntu installed onto my Windows partition via
> >> wubi, I was just testing it out and installing it on it's own
> >> partition was the next step. Before I had a chance to do that the
> >> Windows XP caught a nasty virus and went fubar. I was able to recover
> >> everything I needed under Linux and Windows, so I went ahead and chose
> >> the Windows Restore Option available from GRUB, it said it formatted
> >> the C: drive (where Windows and Ubuntu(wubi) resided and reinstalled
> >> Windows, when I rebooted it I received the following error message:
> >>
> >> error: no such partition.
> >> grub rescue>
> >>
> >> from looking around the web I was able to get:
> >>
> >> ls which yields:
> >> (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1)
> >>
> >> now from what I was able to gather I need to fix GRUB one suggestion
> >> is to use a repair disk, but when I try to enter BIOS to change the
> >> boot order, it's asking me for a password now (!!!) where the wasn't
> >> one before.
> >>
> >> Can anyone please help me out with some next steps, solutions for this
> >> please!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Eric M
> >>
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