All Blog Posts Tagged 'grub' (4)

Hello Geeks! I thought I'd blog this as resources on this topic are scattered over the internet, and I know a lot of people here run Ubuntu, so I thought this would help. This technique has only been tested on machines dual-booting Ubuntu (9.04 and 8.10) and Windows XP (Home and Pro). I do not know whether it works with Vista, or other Linux distros. Also backup before changing your hard disk (I didn't, but I'm naughty). This method is for people who don't know their admin password or don't… Continue

This is in no way an advertisement but just a tip incase this ever happens to you, I do not make anything off this post. It is just helpful information. I just did. And then on reboot realized HEY! Grub is still installed... and is now giving me an Error 17. What did I do? I panic thinking I have to reinstall everything again. That means reinstalling Windows 7 (Yes I know, the new one is released tomorrow) and have to reinstall all my programs, games add-on's for games the works. I did some se… Continue

There are loads of tutorials out there on how to Dual-boot pretty much any combination of Operating Systems, and I felt it was about time I contributed my part on how to dual boot two of my favourite ones: Ubuntu Linux and OSx86. There are several methods to achieving this, however after trying and failing for about a week, myself and a friend finally managed to get it working – turns out it was as easy as pie and we were trying to do all the wrong things. This is how we finally did it, after n… Continue

I downloaded Linux to see what all the fuss was about. So i downloaded it and then installed it. But for some reason it could't find my wireless internet so i could't use it. But i didn't really no how to uninstall it. I heard about removing a partition but i couldn't find how to delete it. So it was just sitting there on my computer. I was running low on memory so i had to remove it, and the grub loader was really pissing me of . So something had to be done here. One of my geeky computer frien… Continue