MTigerV Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 A few months ago I built an XP/Ubuntu dual-boot system. It used GRUB as a boot manager. I tried installing from the JAS 10.4.6 on the ubuntu partition and it installed and booted fine, but when i try to boot from the XP partition i got a GRUB error. So i reinstalled ubuntu, it fixed GRUB, and got back access to the XP partition. So how would i go about switching from XP/Ubuntu to XP/OSx86. in other words from this: disk0 part1 XP part2 ubuntu part3 linux-swap to this disk0 part1 XP part2 OSx86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Here's some info: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html#q12 Except that with XP, I'd boot with the XP install CD, enter the Recovery Console and do: fixboot c: fixmbr bootcfg /rebuild If there's still a problem and can't boot in windows, make sure the winxp partition is active (should be). When you are sure you can boot into winxp without problems, then go ahead and go for osx; you can then chose either the darwin bootloader or the ntldr loader with the chain0 method to boot both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTigerV Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Thanks a bunch, that worked great. Now to get everything eles working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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