[juneau-lug] Re: XP SP3 and Grub

  • From: deadcats <deadcats@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 06:25:55 -0800

James, I'm dual-booting XP & Ubuntu off different primary partitions on the
same HDD (sda), with GRUB located in the MBR of sda. After reading your
post, I did an online install of XP SP3, and there were no changes to GRUB
including several reboots.
Where's your GRUB located?

regards,
-dc

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:51 PM, James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I dual boot between Debian and XP on my laptop. =A0I have grub on the
> first=
> =20
> hard-drive (which is actually the Windows one -- long story) which
> defaults=
> =20
> to booting Debian.
>
> This afternoon I installed XP SP3, and now whenever I use windows the
> grub=
> =20
> default option is Windows, and not Debian. =A0I can boot to Debian, change
> =
> the=20
> default back, and it will stick as long as I don't boot to Windows again.
> =
> =A0As=20
> soon as I do, grub's default is back to Windows.
>
> Anyone else seeing this, or do I have some sort of funky grub issue?
>
> James
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