On 12/6/06, BombayNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now after some boot files in XP got corrupted, the computer refused to boot.
Why would Ubuntu not boot if XP got corrupted? Are you sure Grub was the boot menu or was it the other way that XP loads grub to boot Ubuntu?
According to the engineer this is a usual problem with XP. He has advised editing boot.ini to make Linux the default OS but he warned that it can be done only once. Also that if Linux is made default Windows XP cannot be opened, etc.
I had a coulple of experiences in the past that for some reasons when I did a "grub-install" on my dual-boot machine with FC and XP, FC boot up but XP didnt. This was a problem with boot.ini file. I had to change the harddisk number in the boot.ini file and it worked. I am not that experienced with grub so I do not know what changes happened after I installed grub for the second time. May be someone on the list can explain that :-) But what do u mean by XP files corrupted? Did you see any errors after you selected XP in grub menu? If there were errors from XP then Grub works fine and Ubuntu should boot. -- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. -Socrates Regards, Raj -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
