I am trying out Lubuntu as a replacement for Windows XP. \u00a0XP the final, end of support date is 8 Apr 14\u00a0 XP the first version of Windows that provides seamless support for USB devices, is extremely popular. \u00a0It can be found in not just consumer computers, but embedded as ATM controllers, \u00a0left luggage cubicles etc.<\/p>\n
Personally, the OS is chugging along fine on mine really old notebook, Compaq Presario. \u00a0The kill joy is the required anti-virus, dragging the performance of the system. \u00a0I have tried Ubuntu on a separate partition before, but it was more resource intensive than Windows! \u00a0Video playback was extremely jerky. \u00a0A few weeks later, that install got dumped. Yesterday\u00a0in a social network, someone recommended Lubuntu for RAM lite, legacy computers.<\/p>\n
So I downloaded Lubuntu 13.1 alternate version. \u00a0The installation was very smooth, with a slight hiccup on the disk partitions \u00a0HD0. \u00a0This is because I wanted to test drive first.<\/p>\n
The GRUB some how nuked the MBR and I could not get Windows to boot.<\/p>\n
A UBCD to recover the MBR, then nuked GRUB and got Windows working. \u00a0 Now I have a installed Lubuntu that I can’t boot.<\/p>\n
I have returned my Linux a long time ago, so some rejuvenation of the grey matter is required.<\/p>\n
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Windows XP (link<\/a>),\u00a0 Lubuntu (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n Ubuntu 14 hates my Presario. \u00a0Grub hates my Presario. \u00a0Ubuntu refuses to complete its boot. \u00a0Grub keeps complaining about read and write outside the disk limits. \u00a0Ubuntu Boot repair cannot even start to boot. \u00a0I guess it is really back to basics. \u00a0Verify disk parameter settings in BIOS and verify CDs.<\/p>\n I have decided to fix the boot problems by not fixing it at all. \u00a0Since I could run Linux before, it means there is a possibility that the partitions were so messed up that it could not boot. \u00a0Using Windows Disk Manager, I wiped off all the Lubuntu partitions. \u00a0Created an extended containing 2 logical partitions. \u00a0Reinstall, manually mark \u00a0the root with ext4 and the swap partitions. \u00a0Reboot, Grub prompts for which OS to boot. \u00a0Thereafter the login screen comes up.<\/p>\n Using the build in video viewer and VLC, so far so good, considering a 1GB RAM system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moving out of Windows XP into Lubuntu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,73],"tags":[346,344,345,343],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-unix","category-windows","tag-grub","tag-lubuntu","tag-mbr","tag-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Update 3 Apr 14<\/h4>\n
Update 5 Apr 14<\/h4>\n