john gibbons wrote:
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?
I haven't had to do this for years, but usually you have two choices
when this happens - you can either find and edit the windows boot.ini
file and list your ubuntu partition, or probably preferable would be to
fire up a live CD, mount your partitions, chroot yourself to your grub
partition and do a grub-install.
Last time I tried anything like that would probably have been back in
the era of Windows NT, Redhat 5 and lilo, so YMMV.
Craig
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