I've tried to no avail to get my machine dual booting properly. I've had all kinds of problems when writing grub to the MBR (like grub nor xp booting at all). I was successful in getting grub to come up by putting it in a /boot partition, but I now get the NTLDR missing message when trying to boot XP. The only way I can get XP to boot is to set the ntfs partition as active, which then bypasses the grub menu entirely. I'm just about out of patience. I am wondering if I can easily create a boot-cd which will either launch grub and give me a working choice between booting XP or ubuntu, or even a boot CD that will automatically boot my unbuntu install. This is of course less convenient, but as I said, I'm almost out of patience. RQ