Re: grub doesn't load

[Amin <amin@siriusbb.com>]

Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: Missed most of this thread so forgive if I make a stupid
> comment especially since I know nothing of WinXP:
> 
> Did you change /boot/grub/menu.lst?? Maybe your lashup doesn't use
> that file? Also, read somewhere, that WinXP does some strange things
> to the MBR, etc.. Don't know what, etc..
> 
> I do have two machines booting with Grub, several versions of
> Slackware 9.X as default, or selected, and Win9X as a selection
> partition.. It does work well for us... HTH.

Reading this post I was reminded of something I had once 
done to recover me Linux installation (it was RH8) after I 
had installed Windows XP and it had wiped the MBR clean. 
Standard advice is to always install Windows first and then 
Linux, but I figured I could do the opposite and still 
recover everything.  I was right, but I went to this website 
for instructions: 
www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

HTH,

Yawar Amin
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