Dual Boot Nightmare - Now XP won't boot either!

[Richard Querin]

On 9/14/05, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> 
> 
> Stay calm - lots of people have been here and as a rule, nothing gets
> lost with all this hastle.


Nice to hear. 

Here's what I did:
> 1. Use the Windows CD to boot rescue mode and rerun fixmbr
> 2. Reinstall Ubuntu, but make sure you:
> a. make a seperate /boot partition (I think 100MB is the recommended
> size)
> b. make sure it finds windows and has it as oine of the boot options
> for grub
> c. Do not allow ubuntu to write grub to mbr, that will overright
> windows mbr and can lead to problems (I'm guessing that's what you've
> done) - it must put it into the /boot partition
> 3. Make sure the /boot partition is marked/flaged 'bootable'


Can all this be done using the Partitioner that comes up during the Ubuntu 
install? 
There were a couple of times that it didn't even ask me where to install 
Grub, I would just see 'grub setup(hd0)' flash by. 


My bios is then set to check for bootable floopy at
> startup. If the gag floppy is there, it boots grub, otherwise windows.
> This way pretty much nothing can interfere with the pesky windows mbr.


Once I get back to being able to boot to XP I would likely prefer to set it 
up this way too.

Thanks.
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