[GLUG-chat] Re: Grub +winxp

[Mozzi <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you right, thinking of it I am sure there was a problem mounting the 
ntfs drives.
Will check tonight

Mozzi

On Thursday 09 March 2006 13:25, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mozzi
> >
> > Heya all
> >
> > I had WinXp on my box @ home and loaded Ubuntu on the second
>
> harddrive.
>
> > Problem is I don't get M$ to boot @ all.
> > I have installed grub on the mbr and added the neccesarry stuff to
>
> grub's
>
> > menu.list.
> >
> > Anybody else had that problem? Suse 10 worked 100% out of the box.
> >
> > Mozzi
>
> I had the same problem with my nephew's PC. Ubuntu is just plain silly
> destroying XP like that. That crappy XP couldn't even be recovered, I
> had to reinstall it after trying for about an hour to recover using the
> XP cd. I know for a fact that Mandriva works fine, when you do an
> installation like that. So the Ubuntu guys are messing up somewhere,
> SuSE 6.4 worked fine on my W98 PC...
>
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