Guest DRod Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Hi, Up to know I dual-boot XP Pro SP2 and Ubuntu 7.04 where GRUB takes over the boot sequencing and selection....I partially reinstalled XP a couple of days ago and the MBR was taken away from GRUB so that now it is "windows" that shows the options of OS and of course it does not include ubuntu yet... Is it possible to edit boot.ini to add ubuntu to the list? it is in a extfs2 partition of the same HD in a laptop.....or is reinstalling GRUB the only option to dual boot? Thanks
Guest Malke Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: adding ubuntu to the boot.ini DRod wrote: > Hi, > > Up to know I dual-boot XP Pro SP2 and Ubuntu 7.04 where GRUB takes over the > boot sequencing and selection....I partially reinstalled XP a couple of days > ago and the MBR was taken away from GRUB so that now it is "windows" that > shows the options of OS and of course it does not include ubuntu yet... > > Is it possible to edit boot.ini to add ubuntu to the list? it is in a extfs2 > partition of the same HD in a laptop.....or is reinstalling GRUB the only > option to dual boot? > > Thanks You just need to repair Grub. No big deal. Boot with your Ubuntu CD and do the Grub repair from there. Google for it if you need more detail. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest DRod Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: adding ubuntu to the boot.ini So do you mean that is not possible to instead of repairing GRUB, include Ubuntu in the list of boot.ini and then let XP take care of the booting sequences? Thanks, D.
Guest Malke Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Re: adding ubuntu to the boot.ini DRod wrote: > So do you mean that is not possible to instead of repairing GRUB, include > Ubuntu in the list of boot.ini and then let XP take care of the booting > sequences? > > Thanks, > D. You can use the XP bootloader instead of Grub but it's a convoluted method. Using Grub is far more straight-forward and Grub is a better bootloader. If you really want to use XP's instead: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=use+XP+bootloader+with+Linux&btnG=Google+Search Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest DRod Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Re: adding ubuntu to the boot.ini Thanks a lot ! "Malke" wrote: > DRod wrote: > > So do you mean that is not possible to instead of repairing GRUB, include > > Ubuntu in the list of boot.ini and then let XP take care of the booting > > sequences? > > > > Thanks, > > D. > > You can use the XP bootloader instead of Grub but it's a convoluted > method. Using Grub is far more straight-forward and Grub is a better > bootloader. If you really want to use XP's instead: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=use+XP+bootloader+with+Linux&btnG=Google+Search > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >
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