[H-GEN] dual boot problems after upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10

[Peter Robinson]

On 13/12/10 09:48, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 09:27 +1000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> The other day I upgraded to 10.10 and then tried to boot into my XP
>> partition. It gives a blue screen of death with some text that goes past
>> too fast to read and then automatically reboots. When I put in an XP
>> disk it stops at the blue screen that says the disk has changed. However
>> it freezes the system (so I can't do a recover) and I need a hard reboot.
>> Anyone else come across this? Any suggestions?
> You weren't playing with bitlocker or the TPM?  The only thing that
> could (and probably did) change is the boot record.  I've never had a
> problem with that myself, but I do know it can cause problems if you are
> using the TPM because the measurement for the boot process changes.
> Bitlocker can use the TPM in some modes.
>
No that I know - I am using a straightforward dual boot setup - this is 
the first time I have had problems.
> If this is the problem the fix is to restore the old MBR.  You must use
> the exact one installed by Windows (ie the one that was "measured" by
> the TPM).  This project has a bunch of them:
>
>    http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/
>
> I don't know whether it will have the one you want.
>
Any way to find out what version to use?