Duel-Boot Error 25... niether OS will load!

[WinBlows]

Not good for a sunday morning

I installed 1.7 alongside Win XP yesterday. Everything seemed to work fine. This morning I rebooted and chose to boot XP. When I restarted to go back to Ubuntu I got this message:

Loading Grub....

Error 25


Nothing. No OS Choices and no way to load either OS. I'm sure it's a problem with grub, just odd it didnt do this until after I booted into Windows. Guess I need to fix the boot loader, but being the noob I am, I'm not sure how. I am running from the live cd now, patiently waiting for a little guidance. If anyone could throw me a bone on Sunday moring I would be greatful.... Sundays are supposed to be my "Crunch Day" for getting everything done I have been putting off

[vinca]

ouch... gee I guess if grub won't even load you're screwed... The only thing I can think of is to pop in the live cd and to recover any data from either partition you have then reinstall... I guess you could try to reinstall grub, but I couldn't help you on this, i'm not a grub expert sorry.

[cowboy]

Try unplugging all the USB connections except keyboard and mouse...and try rebooting, I should of started this like do you have any USB connections being used...to lazy to start over..lol

PS always have a copy of Super Grub handy..a life saver...
and look here http://www.helium.com/items/831925-boot ... u-flexible
super grub http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/ ... kpage.html

[WinBlows]

No USB in use. The only thing I did was connect a HDD with all of my development work. I checked to see if there was conflicting settings in the bios, but didnt find anything...even tried disconnecting the HDD I had hooked up. I backed up everything in Windows, luckily I save everything to a seperate HDD....so no big deal if I need to reload WinBlows .. not that I'm particularly interested in re-installing windows yet again.

So... looks like it will be a long day...

[cowboy]

Check out the two links, I posted.....Winblows,,redoing Winblows..sounds like a married couple..

[WinBlows]

Cowboy, I had to go back to your previous post cause I missed the links

I followed the first how-to, looks like I need to reboot....see how it goes.

Thanks for the help

[cowboy]

Keep us posted...hope it works for you..

[WinBlows]

That did work. I even had the choice to boot windows, which I figured I would likely loose....havent tried yet.

I'm still having issues with video, theres a good 2-4 sec delay when typing and 30 + sec delay when doing just about everything else. Worked fine last night. Sure it's video related...though I installed the driver ok last night

Back at it... thanks for the advice, I'm sure ill be back.

[DaddyX3]

That did work. I even had the choice to boot windows, which I figured I would likely loose....havent tried yet.

I'm still having issues with video, theres a good 2-4 sec delay when typing and 30 + sec delay when doing just about everything else. Worked fine last night. Sure it's video related...though I installed the driver ok last night

Back at it... thanks for the advice, I'm sure ill be back.

Forgive me if I have missed reading your system specs somewhere in here. But if you list your video card, maybe we can get you up to speed. Even utilizing a "vesa" driver you should still be running a lot faster than you are!