Booting Linux Help! Help!

[Alan Milnes]

Email Message wrote:
> No I am NOT kidding. I gat about 100 messages. If I log in more than once a day I get another lot. It takes about 20 second to get a new screen up. I only get 25 messages at a time up so have to keep changing screens (another 20 sec each time). I cannot see that there is any facility to mark all messages and then delete them in Hotmail. In any case I cannot do that because I have my own messages mixed up with the Ubuntu messages which I keep stored on the system until I can store them into my computer. 

Use a better email service - like http://mail.google.com

> DOES ANYONE PERHAPS HAVE THE ANSWER TO MY PROBLEM WHICH IS THAT I CANNOT BOOT LINUX FROM MY HDD. I HAVE LOADED A BOOTABLE LINUX SYSTEM ON MY PC BUT IT WILL NOT BOOT.
> 
> WHEN THE PC BOOTS UP IT GOES THROUGH THE INITIAL BOOT ROUTINES OF TESTING MEMORY, FEATURES ETC BUT IMMEDIATELY IT TRIES TO LOAD LINUX FROM THE HDD IT COMES UP WITH A MESSAGE SAYING "NDLR MISSING" RETRY WITH A BOOTABLE PROGRAM.
> 
> WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? IF I CANNOT GET IT TO WORK I WILL HAVE TO ABANDON MY ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE FROM MICROSOFT.

Please don't use all caps - it's the equivalent of shouting at us!

It sounds like your install has failed - try running it again.  As part 
of the install it will write a program called GRUB to your MBR which 
will then control the start up of your computer, it seems this failed on 
your first attempt.

Alan