Re: After Ubuntu installation...Winxp boots up sloooooowww
From: Stefan Patric (not_at_thisaddress.com)
Date: 10/04/05
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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:51:23 -0700
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:01:38 -0700, sherry wrote:
> Hi guys, (Inspiron 6000: 1.8 Mhz, 1Gig ram, 60 HD):
>
> Before installing Ubuntu, I had the following (factory default)
> partitions:
> (1) 62.7mb FAT,Primary
> (2) 50gig C:\ NTFS,Prim --Winxp Pro (3) 3gig recovery,Prim
> (4) 7.8mb unalloc
>
> Then I used Partition Mag. to resize C:\winxp into 38gig(has winxp) and
> make 14gig for ubuntu.
>
> (1) 62.7MB FAT,Primary
> (2) 38gig C: NTFS,Primary -- Winxp Pro (3) 15gig ext3, extended
Partition (2) and (3) total 53 GB. This is 3 GB more than original 50 GB
C: partition. Looks like (3), your designated Linux partition, has
overlapped partition (4), the Recovery. Not a good thing. With the
installation of Ubuntu, you may have wiped out all the data and files on
your Recovery partition.
> (4) 3gig recovery,Primary
> (5) 7.8 unallocated
This is a Windows "hidden" partition, that the OS NEEDS to operate
properly. Yes, I know it says it's unallocated space, but do NOT
delete it or have another partition use the space. It's at the very end
of the drive, right?
> During the ubuntu installation i delted the (3) parition and chose "used
> this free space" option during parition and ended up with the following
> partitions as shown in PM:
> (1) 62.7MB FAT,Primary
> (2) 38gig C: NTFS,Primary -- Winxp Pro (3) 15gig ext3, extended
> (3.1) Same 15gig is highlighted as linux partition (3.2) 651MB SWAP
> (3) 3gig recovery,Primary
> (4) 7.8 unallocated
>
> Through GRUB, Once I choose winxp, then the "please wait" sign stays
> forever and finally the login and then another huge wait to login and then
> wait again to start everything. Need help to find out why its soooo
> sloooowww...
Yes, something is definitely amiss....
> BTW, the cluster for winxp is 4k....and page is 1536
Overall, I'd say your partition set up is messed up. It needs to be
fixed. Before you do anything else, does Ubuntu boot? If it does, open a
terminal window and type this command: /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
This will list your hard drive and partition info. Post it here.
I need to know how that unallocated space is designated. Whether it
really IS unpartitioned. And the start and end blocks of all your
partitions and whether they are all Primaries or Primary and Extended.
fdisk will hopefully tell me.
Now, if Ubuntu doesn't boot up, try to get a LiveCD -- Ubuntu's, Knoppix,
Mepis, etc. doesn't matter -- to run Linux fully in RAM on your notebook.
And type the same command above and post it here. We'll see if we can
fix your system, which is definitely screwed, but hopefully not badly.
Stefan
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