Comments on: Installed Windows 7, now Ubuntu won’t start

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:57:00 +0000

Many thanks to all of you! This was much easier than I had thought it would be; I am back on Ubuntu I have been thoroughly impressed from what I have seen of the open source community so far; the useful and timely help I have gotten from this posting has only impressed me further. I look forward to learning more about Ubuntu and the wonderful world of open source software!

Have a wonderful day!

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Yes, That’s the one you need.
Make sure you have an AMD processor, else you will need the ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.
Welcome to Ubuntu world.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Thank-you for the suggestion, I found “ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso” and am working on getting it downloaded, hopefully by tomorrow I will be able to get Ubuntu back up and running

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Yea that’s the one you need if you have an Intel PC. You will need
“karmic-alternate-AMD.iso” for AMD processor.

Thanks
Anurag Bansal

By: BleepingBeep

BleepingBeep — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0000

The alternate file I downloaded and burned to a CD was “karmic-alternate-i386.iso”. This is probably the one most users will need.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:19:00 +0000

Thank-you, that helps tremendously!

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:04:00 +0000

That’s a nice question. Actually most of the newbies in Linux world don’t know that Live CD and alternate CD are two different things because of the way the install the operating system.
Live CD is generally provides graphical user interface (GUI) and hence you don’t have to enter any UNIX command to run the applications.
Alternate CD files are different and while installation you don’t generally get the graphical interface. While installation you will see Blue and gray screens which receives only keyboard inputs. Your mouse won’t work. (At least I have seen that way).
So in short, you need to download a separate Ubuntu file. Search for “alternate” in the file name and then burn it on a CD/DVD and follow the instructions above.
Hope this information helps you understand the difference between Live and Alternate CD.
Thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:27:00 +0000

This may be a silly question (but I am a silly person, so I am ok with that). I was curious when you said “Ubuntu Alternate installation CD. (Not the Live CD)” does that simply mean that I should have an install disc as opposed to the ISO image (like the one I used to install Ubuntu)? Or is there a file I need to download to make this disc?

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:35:00 +0000

You are very welcome my friend.

By: BleepingBeep

BleepingBeep — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:00 +0000

Thank you very much for this advice on how to restore the Grub menu after the Windows 7 installation messed it up. Your steps worked perfectly for me!

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By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:39:00 +0000

The gadgets you have mentioned are all Mobile devices. There are some Windows based mobiles too.
But in this article I was talking about PC and laptop having a Windows OS.
To your question: There are tremendous benefits of having two OS on a PC.
1. You can experience the best of both worlds.
2. If one becomes unresponsive then also you can finish your work.
3. You can try different applications and learn about them. (Good for techie people who want to play with different things.)
4. Ubuntu has some inherent benefits that can’t be replaced by Windows and vice versa.
5. Ubuntu is blazingly fast, though Windows is sometimes…you know
etc. etc…
Hope I answered your question.

By: Santosh

Santosh — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:31:00 +0000

Anurag: My TomTom works on Linux, Blackberry on it own OS and Palm has its own. I don’t bother on having a MS OS on it.

What is the benefit of having two operating system on PC ? I am just curious …

By: Avinash

Avinash — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:19:47 +0000

RT @technomania Installed Windows 7, now Ubuntu won’t start http://bit.ly/1i8VBK

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:25:00 +0000

Thanks Andy, I appreciate your help. In fact, I will appreciate if you can write a guest post for Knowliz, if you don’t mind. That can go well with this article and hence improve its relevance.
Let me know if you have any question or suggestion.
Cheers…

By: Andy - The Digitante

Andy - The Digitante — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:20:00 +0000

I’m not currently at home. I’ll try to check it out tonight and let you know. Maybe I’ll even write a post about it.

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:31:00 +0000

Thanks Andy for correcting me. Didn’t notice that while writing.
I am not sure about the Advanced system settings. I will have to check about it.
Can you point us to any article or tutorial about it? How does the option looks like?

By: Andy - The Digitante

Andy - The Digitante — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:31:00 +0000

9.10 is Karmic Koala. 9.04 is Jaunty Jackalope.

Also, can’t you go to your advanced system settings and change your boot setup to be able to select your operating system and the amount of time for selection? Then you wouldn’t necessarily NEED grub.

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:49:20 +0000

New Post: Installed Windows 7, now Ubuntu won’t start #knowliz Plz RT http://bit.ly/4vcect

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:44:41 +0000

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