Here is my problem.
I installed VirtualBox into an Ubuntu 9.04 partition. I am running virtual Windows XP in the VirtualBox. So, Ubuntu is the host and Windows XP is the guest.
I wanted to copy my original (real) Windows XP installation into the VirtualBox, so I used a program called Macrium Reflect to make an image of my real Windows XP Installation. Then I booted up virtual Windows XP, and using Macrium Reflect, I restored the real Windows XP Image into a second partition that I had created inside VirtualBox. Now whenever I try to boot up the virtual Windows XP inside VirtualBox, the VirtualBox screen only shows "grub, grub, grub ,grub...". The entire screen fills up with nothing but the word "grub", and of course the virtual Windows XP will not boot.
Does anyone have any idea how I can stop the grub, grub ,grub... and get virtual Windows XP to run?
Thank you!
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VirtualBox or Macrium Reflect error: grub, grub, grub...
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Re: VirtualBox or Macrium Reflect error: grub, grub, grub...
Start your VM with a Windows XP install disc, then go to recovery mode. Issue the commands fixboot and fixmbr. That should rewrite the MBR of the VM with a proper one for Windows. Your current VM is stuck looking for the Grub boot loader that it got from the Host, but can't find it because you don't have the same situation there.
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Re: VirtualBox or Macrium Reflect error: grub, grub, grub...
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Sasquatch wrote:Start your VM with a Windows XP install disc, then go to recovery mode. Issue the commands fixboot and fixmbr. That should rewrite the MBR of the VM with a proper one for Windows. Your current VM is stuck looking for the Grub boot loader that it got from the Host, but can't find it because you don't have the same situation there.
Thanks very much for your help! Your suggestion worked. Now virtual Windows XP is running again.
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