Comments on: Install Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic) from Windows XP dual-boot system

By: Firear

Firear — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:10:54 +0000

Hey guy I’m just a Chinese.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:46:13 +0000

I was not able to install Ubuntu. When I reboot my laptop and choose Ubuntu 9.10 it displayed ” Kernel Panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown – block(8,1)”. Please I really need help regarding this. Your response would be appreciated. ..

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By: iri

iri — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:24:45 +0000

very good guide, except for the part with language in chinesse (which i guess it’s a joke
for the “failed to unmount partition /isodevice” i found a easy way to fix it:
ctrl-alt-f1 to go to console and type:
umount -l /isodevice
and then alt-f7 to return to install process

By: Helmi

Helmi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:31:48 +0000

Thank you for this guide but after all this step when i start to install ubuntu 9.10, i have an error “failed to unmount partitions /isodevice”. Can you help me to fixed it ?

By: Simon Dedman

Simon Dedman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:05:28 +0000

Followed all steps. Nothing happened. Also: there are 2 grldr files: one without extension and one .mbr – which one do we extract? (i ended up extracting both).
My primary drive is a mirrored RAID1 on two sata drives.
Any thoughts/ideas appreciated.
I assume that booting to the ubuntu install and working with ubuntu like this means i can switch back to windowsXP whenever I boot up as I see fit?