<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I had the same problems, and then I though, do I really need to boot into windows?<br>nah, I just run it in a virtual box, when it crashes, I install a new one.<br><br>simple huh.<br><br>saves messing about with all this dual shenanigans. I do respect that some<br>people have to keep windows because <br><br>a) they run excel.<br>b) when it crashes, they know how to reinstall it.<br><br><br>oh, I forget the most important, something to do with legacy applications. darn....<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 2/10/08, Robert McWilliam <i><rmcw@allmail.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Robert McWilliam <rmcw@allmail.net><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] dual boot<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Thursday, 2 October, 2008,
3:34 PM<br><br><pre>On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:14:35PM +0200, Jacek Sapieja wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> ?<br>> I finally managed to install winxp on my toshiba.<br>> When I restart it loads ubuntu without boot menu display.<br>> Is that a matter of config file edition ?<br>> Jacek<br><br>You can control what ubuntu does upon boot by editing<br>/boot/grub/menu.lst <br><br>I suspect you'll want to add an entry for the windows partition above<br>or below the automagic bit, and increase the timeout (it defaults to<br>very short (possibly 0) if you don't actually have anything to choose<br>from when you installed.<br><br>I think there might be more problems for you though as windows will<br>normally overwrite the MBR when you install it, but if ubuntu is still<br>booting then you've still got grub in the MBR. If you deliberately<br>stopped windows
overwriting the MBR then you can ignore my prophecies<br>of doom and carry on...<br><br> Robert<br><br>________________________________________________________<br>Robert McWilliam rmcw@allmail.net www.ormiret.com<br><br>Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>