Comment 92 for bug 403408

Tried to install ubuntu 9.10 live cd today with existing Win XP SP3. Asus A7N8X Deluxe, AMD Athlon XP 2800, 2G Ram, 640 GB HD. Hard drives are two 320G drives striped together using Raid 0. Raid shows up as scsi drive on mobo. XP on the first 200 GB. NTFS on the second 200 GB. 200 GB free. Installed ubuntu to the free using all of the disk. On booting obtained Grub error 18.

Now what do I do? I've recovered XP using original CDs then overwrote boot sector. XP shows the remaining hard drive has two partitions, one almost 200 G and one about 5 G with the 5G last in line.

I'm not comfortable trying to reinstall or fix grub2, then having to keep doing so whenever Ubuntu or Windows updates. (I had run fedora core 4 for 10 years without updating, recently my bank stopped working with Firefox 1.0 and I had to update to fedora core 10 to get Firefox to run, but that 16 bit system is still running with no updates). I'ld really like to get away from XP's updates, as today trying to ignore SP3 upgrade killed Avast. I had to delete Avast, update to SP3 anyway, then reinstall Avast. Shouldn't need to update a pc to start it up and go online.

Anyway ubuntu looked good on the web. When will it be fixed so I can install it properly?