<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Norman Silverstone <<a href="mailto:norman@littletank.org" target="_blank">norman@littletank.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I am attempting to set up a new PC with Windows XP Pro and Xubuntu 12.04. XP Pro was installed followed by Xubuntu. The computer was then re-booted but, instead of getting a list to choose the operating system from, the PC went straight into XP Pro. Presumably something is preventing Grub from working correctly and I would be grateful for suggestions on how to deal with the problem. Thanks in advance Norman -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> If you have more than one hard drive, it's possible that grub didn't install in the drive that's first in the boot order. Another possibility, if you installed using a usb stick, is that grub installed itself to the usb instead of the drive. So, if you reinstall make sure that grub is installed to sda.