From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: grub doesn't load Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:06:16 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40D6CF38.6010705@siriusbb.com> References: <851bbd852696.852696851bbd@homemail.nyu.edu> <20040620152104.GA594@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040620152104.GA594@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs