Ntloader missing and can't get dsl working in Ubuntu

[Mark Nottingham]

Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:

> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>> This happened to me when I first installed Ubuntu. All I did was boot 
>> up with the XP cd and go into the recovery console, then manually 
>> copy ntldr and ntdetect.com (just in case) to the root of C. It was 
>> fine after that.
>
>
> But this would mean the installation of Ubuntu did somehow hurt the 
> ntldr?!
>
> After you copied ntldr and ntdetect.com you could boot XP from grub?
> And this was the only thing you did?
>
> I am just intrested.
>
> Thanks, Thomas
>
Yes, that's right. I got the grub menu with Windows XP listed in it, and 
Ubuntu booted fine but Windows didn't. After copying the 2 files over 
Windows was OK.

My laptop never had this problem though even though I dual boot on this too.

Regards

Mark