Thanks for the reply Joseph!

Cool, so that would take care of the MBR, I assume?

Also, what files? (I'm truly a newb when it comes to Linux.) Can the 100 Meg 
partition for the grub files be after the Windows partition?

Thanks,

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
[email protected]
www.eaglemds.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: sort of OT: using GRUB or LILO to boot windows XP

>Can any of you tell me what I need to do?

You should be able to boot a live cd, drop into a shell and install grub.
Now a days, its smart enough on its own...

Something like:
sudo grub
>setup (hd0)
>exit

You need a place to put some grub files, so I'd expect you need a partition, 
and it doesn't need to be
upfront, but maybe when you install XP manually create a 100 meg partition and 
leave it raw
then create your ntfs part after it. Once in Ubuntu you can format that ext3 
from the live cd and xp wont
even know it's there...

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