[plug] dual boot XP dominates (same topic - different thread)

Eric S ews.mail at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 22:03:50 WST 2006


G.Chester wrote:

<snip>
> Thanks to all the useful replies, none as intimidating as I was finding on
> the www.  FWIW I did try reinstalling grub after going into rescue, and I
> fiddled to make sure that it was in /boot (it wasn't the first time), but
> I got so "clever" with my partitioning that I think I screwed it all up
> properly (ever tried /boot on hda10, anyone?).  Anyway, probably best to
> start with a clean slate.  Before I do that, I'll try the suggestion of
> putting grub on hda1 where XP lives and also look at the windoze boot.ini.
<snip>

Is there any reason your not using LILO?
I don't care (both have good and bad points) I am just curious.

BTW I made my 13yo daughters comp totally linux 3 or 4 months ago.
Best thing I ever done!
:-)

-- 
Eric S




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