On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 15:42, Mike McCarty wrote: > If I install GRUB as the boot manager in the MBR, then my > machine complains that it has been clobbered, and asks > me whether I'd like to recover. If I tell it "no", > then it shuts up, and I can load GRUB. No problem. But > GRUB cannot properly chain load WinXP. And that's a fact. > > I put the chain load stuff in for GRUB, and it didn't work. > No way, no how. After I selected WinXP, I saw it go through a > somewhat prolonged load (several seconds) with a little sort > of thermometer on the bottom of the screen (like during the > initial first boot) and then it told me that the system looked > corrupt, and did I want to do recovery. When I told it "no", it > rebooted, and up came GRUB. This sounds to me like grub did in fact load winxp - otherwise it wouldn't have done anything at all. Then either your partitions were mangled (did you resize or anything?) or something like a virus checker detected the change from within XP. Is that a standard version or an OEM version with who-knows-what added in? > I've been told that it is "imagination", I've been told > that the installer "just works", I've been told that > it's a result of a clobbered PT (which it isn't), I've > been told that I was "inventing" it, and I've been told that > I didn't run the installer correctly. I've been told > other things. It sounds like something certain OEMs might consider a 'feature'. But they should be able to tell you how to turn it off. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
