reboots before loading a different OS

[antrozous812]

Hi,

I've registered to this forum, as there doesn't seem to have any official Forum on Samsung's website. And this website seems to be the biggest Samsung Community.

I have purchased a Samsung n210 a few days ago, and I realized that it doesn't like to boot in other circumstances than a "regular" boot.

Let me explain:
I have installed WindowsXP SP3 and Ubuntu; a dual boot. When I power up my computer, I select the OS I want to boot on. If the selected OS is different than the one I have previously booted on, the computer will restart and I have to make my choice again. It's only after this, that the computer will be okay to boot. This happens no matter which OS I choose. But as I mentioned above, if I boot on the same OS than on the last usage, it will work perfectly.

Also, with WindowsXP SP3 installed solely, if I decide to boot on a USB Key with Ubuntu on it, the notebook will behave the same way.

So what I have learned from this is that it's definitely not an installation error. Also, I have a dell desktop configured the exact same way and works perfectly.

I took my notebook through some CPU stress test and the MemTest (with 2 passes), and no error came up.

Does anyone have an idea as to why my computer acts like this? Why doesn't my notebook like to boot on a different OS than previously?

I really hope someone will be able to help me, as Samsung's Help Center wasn't very useful.

Thank you in advance,
Chris.

[moktir]

I know this is very late, but I have the exact same problem with my N150 after installing XP, I dual boot Xp and Win7 and if i select a different one to whichever previously loaded it will reboot and then allow me to select. It doesn't bother me much as I hardly ever use 7 after installing XP but it is annoying all the same.

[Flaker]

This is a well-known problem, and the BIOS update does not fix it.
Samsung has to be aware of this problem, but does not seem to do anything.

I also bother with these reboots, but just like moktir I rarely use win7.
I've made myself .bat scripts that reboot the netbook to the other OS. If anyone interested,
I'll post them here.