Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Windows XP and Xubuntu Dual Boot Success!!

I have old gateway M405 laptop with 1.3GHz celeron processor. I have been trying to install windows and linux. The main problem was after xubuntu or whatever ubuntu installation windows gives me many different errors and refuse to boot.
Errors were;
NTLDR missing
BSOD with unbootable disk volume errors ....

Finally I solved the problem by leaving about 8MB gap between Windows partition and Linux partition. You can do it by using fdisk and tweaking around little bit.
Also, for linux, I only used logical partition instead of primary partition.

After that, everything is good to go.

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