Re: [tlug] supergrub to the rescue! - ubuntu issues

[Linux Job World <admin@example.com>]

I have 2 hdd - one 80 and one 160 gb. I have setup ubuntu on a 30GB 
seperate partition.

So ubuntu will do a /etc/ini.d/checkfs on entire disk everytime I reboot 
- I had to remove it from /etc/init.d

Also while installing it will scan the entire disk for Win**** and check 
what it can import. I have some bad shutdowns in windows and
it needed a scandisk. So ubuntu will scan the disk and try to fix the 
corrupted files without asking ! I lost a few files because of this :(

It take 2 hours to install ubuntu on a Athlon XP 1.7 because of the time 
it spends on doing all these things.

Removed ubuntu and got debian and and it makes me happy. I still use 
ubuntu at office :)

Darren Cook wrote:
> http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/
>
> And hope you never need it. What it does is allow you to boot windows
> after a ubuntu "user-friendly" install has ******-ed up your dual-boot
> system.
>
> You think I'm ranting? No, the rant starts here.
>
> There is a big problem with the Ubuntu 7.10 install process for dual
> boot machines: it assumes it is cleverer than you. So instead of asking
> what you want to do about grub and boot loaders and your MBR, it assumes
>  it knows what you want. But on the last page of the install there is an
> advanced button. "Install boot loader" is checked by default. After some
> googling I decided this step was risky, so I'd boot Ubuntu from CD, at
> least at first. I unchecked that checkbox.
>
> DO NOT UNCHECK THAT CHECKBOX. What unchecking it means is: it will still
> install a boot loader, but it will not configure grub! What *that* means
> is that when you reboot not only have you lost Windows but you do not
> even have Ubuntu in its place. Instead you have a grub commandline
> prompt that is as friendly as Windows 95 is secure. That checkbox
> desperately needs a lot more explanation than "install boot loader".
>
> Thankfully it appears there was no permanent damage as supergrub's "boot
> windows" option worked. Phew. It is the first time in my life I've seen
> the Microsoft logo and jumped off my chair with a Yippeeeeee!
>
> I'll have to come back and work out how to fix the mess later. And the
> irony is I just posted a rather positive review of Ubuntu only this morning:
>   http://darren-reviews.blogspot.com/2007/12/ubuntu-710.html
>
> Darren
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