On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 09:53 +1000, john gibbons wrote: > Any help here would be appreciated. > > I had XP and Dapper working together on a partitioned drive. XP decided > it would not boot any more because of a missing file. So I reinstalled > it on its own previous drive partition leaving Ubuntu's untouched. Now > on boot up I am offered only this unattractive choice: I can select XP > or I can select XP. Yes, it lists itself twice. No other option. > > Can I do something to get Ubuntu back as an option at boot up time or > must I now reinstall it? > > John.
It's a pretty common prob, windows likes nuking boot-loaders. You've gotta get grub reinstalled. The easiest way I've found is: 1. boot using a live cd. 2. mount your ubuntu partition(s) 3. chroot to where you mounted ubuntu 4. run grub-install to reinstall your boot-loader You should be fine. There's plenty of help around on the man pages etc, or this list if you need :) -Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
