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Re: [LUG] recovering XP in GRUB

 

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:15 +0100, james kilty wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:00 +0100, kevin wrote:
> > 
> 
> 
> > or this may help
> > http://www.debianadmin.com/configure-grub-and-usplash-settings-using-simple-gui-interface-in-ubuntu.html
> Imagemagick and Startup-Manager can all be installed from repositories
> via synaptic.
> 
> So, using Startup-Manager, in the first tab, boot options>default
> operating system>opening the menu shows all the items in my menu.lst -
> implying they should show up when I first boot. There is no option I can
> see to edit the list.
> 
> I could set XP as the default, hoping I can also select back once I have
> it!!!!
> 
> What do you think I should do? (I just rebooted and the XP option did
> not appear - just a check). Interesting that Ther have been all sorts of
> instabilities in 8.04 and lots of updates. I had lost wireless and could
> only gewt it back by manually putting in 198.162.1.1 as the default
> gateway. The screen rightness went down greatly and I could find no way
> to restore it even on Windows. My daughter used it just the once, with a
> dvd in Linux and it came back - simultaneously losing XP. Mysterious.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> -- 
> james kilty
> http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk
> 

have you found the grub.conf file if so send it so I know what is there?
you can do the XP as default but only as root!
do you have a root account or do you use sudo -start-up manager

> 
Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub)
Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE
01579363386


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