[plug] dual boot XP dominates

Mike Holland myk.list at westnet.com.au
Thu Feb 23 17:17:59 WST 2006


simon wrote:

> My guess would be that Shannon accidentally told the installer to put the boot
> record in the boot partition rather than the MBR (or whatever the 'other'
> option is that Ive never used).
> 
> Either boot a rescue disk, fix the grub conf and reapply, or just reinstall
> and be a bit more careful :D

"reinstall"? A bit drastic. Isn't linux supposed to minimise that?

In this case, could you just edit c:\boot.ini in XP, and get the windoze 
boot manager to load grub?




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