Comment 19 for bug 10535

On 4/4/07, resume-writer <email address hidden> wrote:
> I don't know. What I do know is that I received that message. My boyfriend
> (Solaris kernel engineer, thank God) had to edit some grub files or
> something because Ubuntu overwrote my Windows boot loader with its Ubuntu
> bootloader. Then, he had to manually edit some files to tell the boot loader
> where to find the Windows partition. It was a total mess. I don't understand
> most of what went wrong. But, the bottom line is that it wasn't Windows that
> messed up. Ubuntu just doesn't know how to handle things when Windows is
> installed prior to Ubuntu. Things are working well now. It's really not an
> OS for human beings. I'll stick with my Windows, thank you.

Sorry, but the way the person named Angela Akridge describe this make you
sound more like a troll than anything else. I have used many different distros
on plenty of machines since 1996 using both lilo and grub but never ever
had the problem that a windows or dos partition would be ignored or the
boot loader overwritten in the installation. On the other hand if you
first install
a linux distro and after that a window you get problems.
Anyway, what you describe has nothing with this hanging to do so the place
to write about this is not relevant.

About the actual bug, I start suspect that it could be a problem with the
bios on the actual M2N8-VMX motherboard where I experienced the
hanging problem. After a kernel rebuild (to 2.6.20) the machine refused
to boot, and it entered the grub shell all the time. Then I rerun the
grub-install with the --force-lba option, and then it started smoothly.

>
> On 4/4/07, Steven Harms <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Is this bug still present in Feisty Beta?
> >
> > --
> > GRUB hangs on "please wait" on ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10535
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> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
> --
> Angela Akridge
> <email address hidden>
> 408/393-9249 (cell)
>
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> GRUB hangs on "please wait" on ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10535
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
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