On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:23:53AM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > Just a small update, since I'm sure someone will > someday search and find this thread ... > > I got it working. The grub configuration in menu.1st > was fine; windows had overwritten the MBR. I don't > know if it's possible, but I *may* not have installed > grub to the MBR the first time (I don't recall running > install-grub /dev/hda) -- by marking the partition as > bootable, it sort of worked.
I haven't had much experience w/ XP, but I'm wondering if you had it booting on /boot partition (marked bootable). On rebooting the WinXP MBR booted the partition with the bootable flag. Then upon subsequently booting into WinXP it removed the bootable flag on your /boot partition, thus you never got to grub again? I'm mostly wondering because WinXP does have a multi-boot manager now, and this might be how it regains control if you haven't added your alternate OS into its menu? -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]