Ubuntu and HP Pavillion Slimline s7421c

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:32 -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Someone needs to hit HP over the head with a clue stick.
> Okay first I contacted them to see how to go about getting media so I
> could run
> XP as a guest OS in vmware after I install Linux. I was told that theres
> is no way.
> I asked if I borrowed a friends XP media would I be able to install it
> that way using my license
> I was told no the license has to match the media . (I guess this is
> mostly MS fault - but still).
> 
> So that idea met a dead end. I decided to just go ahead with a dual
> boot. Its not like I'm *really* going to use MS anyways.
> (for the last 10 years or so I've either purchased computers at whitebox
> suppliers or build them myself). I happen to have some Ubuntu Version
> 5.10 disc around and thought I could install that run the upgrade and
> get my wife up and running till her Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop discs
> arrive in the mail. (all her data is backed up on my network drives so
> its not really hard to move her from distro to distro). The install
> seemed to go okay but on reboot the HP Recovery screen came up. (no way
> around it) I tried rebooting. Grub came up but the only OS option that
> worked was the one for Windows. Then you're back at the HP Recovery
> window. HP's recovery wipes ubuntu off the system.
> 
> If this is what most people have to go though to install Linux no wonder
> people still think its hard to install. I'm going to try dual boot one
> more time with FC 5 if that doesn't work I'm just going to wipe the hard
> disk clean then install. (maybe I should use partition magic).
> 
> Its been a long time since I felt that Linux was a 2nd class citizen in
> the computer world but the past week I've had several walls come up.
> Hopefully my experience with my video card will go much better.
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install grub in the boot partition and configure Windows boot.ini to
boot your Linux - that's what other people do for the HP/Compaq stuff
which as I understand it, does not like Linux grub in mbr.

Craig