[plug] dual boot XP dominates

[Eric S]

G.Chester wrote:

> 
> Trying to bring my son across from the "dark side" with a magazine cover
> disc copy of Mandriva to put on his WinXP system. Since he's a complete
> newbie I thought this would be a good starting distro (no, that's not
> meant as flame bait).
> 
> Everything went swimmingly, with all cutting-edge hardware stuff
> recognised, etc - and it was so FAST on his new spec PC (mine is steam
> powered, so I'm
> used to 1 hour-plus installs).  But, then all that came up after the
> install was XP with no boot loader menu in sight (grub was chosen).
> 
> I could give more details about what was done, but in the immediate sense
> I want to know if this a known issue with XP retaining total dominance, or
> whether I was too clever with choices of partitioning and location of
> /boot
> and stuff and basically stuffed up the install.  I thought this question
> had been answered so time ago and searched the archives, but nothing
> exactly
> relevant.  A google-load of page hits talked about editing boot loaders
> and reformatting MBR, but I thought maybe just trying to be less clever
> and let Mandriva sort out partitioning and sectors on his system might be
> the easier way to go in the short term.
> 
> What do you'all think.  Trust in the Mandriva developers and try again or
> get down and dirty with config. files?
> 
> Regards, Gavin.

Gavin you may have already solved your problem but here is what I would do.
assuming mandriva 2006.
2005 and 10.1 are similar iirc.


Boot your install cd1
press F1
type rescue
follow the prompts to reinstall the bootloader.
Reboot

Cheers

-- 
Eric S