On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:55:00 +0000, GS wrote:

> I installed ubuntu to a free 15GB partition on the main drive, how can I
> manually set up XP so I can now boot from linux? Or set up one of the
> linux dual boot options? (I have to get into linux first though)

A better newsgroup for Ubuntu questions is alt.os.linux.ubuntu.

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GS wrote:
> I thought, like previous linux installs I have done, it would prompt me
> to set up a dual boot menu. I installed it fine but there was no option
> and it boots straight into XP
>
> I installed ubuntu to a free 15GB partition on the main drive, how can I
> manually set up XP so I can now boot from linux? Or set up one of the
> linux dual boot options? (I have to get into linux first though)
>
> thanks in advance


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=548593

On 2008-01-26, GS wrote:
> I thought, like previous linux installs I have done, it would prompt me
> to set up a dual boot menu. I installed it fine but there was no option
> and it boots straight into XP
>
> I installed ubuntu to a free 15GB partition on the main drive, how can I
> manually set up XP so I can now boot from linux? Or set up one of the
> linux dual boot options? (I have to get into linux first though)
>
> thanks in advance

Unless you mucked around with how the Ubuntu installer
works by default, it should have setup a bootloader with
your XP configuration already in it. This has been
pretty much standard operating procedure for desktop
distributions for ~ 10 years.

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