dual boot winxp installed afterwards

[James Takac]

On Sunday 29 July 2007 21:47:56 larry shields wrote:
> James Takac wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > The above is what I'm looking into for a friend, i.e. installing win xp
> > on a sys that already has ubuntu 7.04 up and running. I know that will
> > wipe out the grub loader meaning only winxp will bott but ubuntu will be
> > intact otherwise. Is it pos to reinstall grub from the live cd? Or maybe
> > need a live cd from another distro to do that? Or maybe there's some
> > other way?
> >
> > James
>
> I am running Feisty Fawn 7.04, and on one hard drive, what I did was too
> install WinXP FIRST!,
> then install Ubuntu...When it boots up Ubuntu's grub shows both XP &
> Ubuntu, it detected XP with no-problems what so ever...
>
> But if one installs Ubuntu, then XP you will have to go through alot to
> have grub see XP...
>
> My suggestion is to install XP as mentioned in the above FIRST...
>
> Larry
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Hi Larry

I would've had the original intention been to have windows on it. It was going 
to be an ubuntu only sys but his needs changed as it were