<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Duncan Lithgow</b> <<a href="mailto:duncan@lithgow-schmidt.dk">duncan@lithgow-schmidt.dk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Stay calm - lots of people have been here and as a rule, nothing gets<br>lost with all this hastle.</blockquote><div><br>Nice to hear. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here's what I did:<br>1. Use the Windows CD to boot rescue mode and rerun fixmbr<br>2. Reinstall Ubuntu, but make sure you:<br> a. make a seperate /boot partition (I think 100MB is the recommended<br>size)<br> b. make sure it finds windows and has it as oine of the boot options
<br>for grub<br> c. Do not allow ubuntu to write grub to mbr, that will overright<br>windows mbr and can lead to problems (I'm guessing that's what you've<br>done) - it must put it into the /boot partition<br>3. Make sure the /boot partition is marked/flaged 'bootable'
</blockquote><div><br>Can all this be done using the Partitioner that comes up during the Ubuntu install? <br>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.
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My bios is then set to check for bootable floopy at<br>startup. If the gag floppy is there, it boots grub, otherwise windows.
<br>This way pretty much nothing can interfere with the pesky windows mbr.</blockquote><div><br>Once I get back to being able to boot to XP I would likely prefer to set it up this way too.<br></div><br>Thanks.<br></div><br>