Greetings: Missed most of this thread so forgive if I make a stupid comment especially since I know nothing of WinXP:
Did you change /boot/grub/menu.lst?? Maybe your lashup doesn't use that file? Also, read somewhere, that WinXP does some strange things to the MBR, etc.. Don't know what, etc.. I do have two machines booting with Grub, several versions of Slackware 9.X as default, or selected, and Win9X as a selection partition.. It does work well for us... HTH. Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20) Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity; only a genius can truly simplify.. On 06-19, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > I rescued it using the disk. On undoing what I had done (which screwed up grub), > Grub still didn't recover (I am sure that I undid correctly, as I had only changed > one parameter in grub.conf - 'default'). So I reinstalled grub from the disk. > But the problem still remains of changing the boot order. > > Anyone? > > Thanks, > Anshuman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: pa3gcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:56 am > Subject: Re: grub doesn't load > > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 02:33, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have a dual boot system with grub as the loader. > > > I wanted to change the default from WinXP to linux. > > > So I changed the 'default' from 1 to 0 in grub.conf. > > > 1 = Win (the second entry in grub.conf. linux was the first). > > > > > > Now the big problem is grub doesn't load any of the 2 OSes. Infact, > > > it doesn;t even reach that startup screen. It just freezes!! > > > > > > Any clue how to fix this without a rescue disk (this PC doesn't > > have a > > > floppy drive) ? > > > > One must presume you installed via a cdrom then as you have no floppy, > > so use your install cdrom as a rescue medium. > > Most distro's have a rescue option. > > You made no mention of which distro so i cant say. > > > > > A quick help will really be appreciated! > > > > To get proper help one needs to know _details_ of course you > > forgot the > > details so the reply's may well be quick but if they are helpful > > is another > > matter. > > > > > Thanks. > > > Anshuman > > > > -- > > If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they > > try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community > > is built on organized crime. > > > > Regards Richard > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- > > newbie" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs