Re: [tlug] problem with MBR

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 06/04/2010 02:18 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Jon Povey writes:
>  > On 04/06/2010 04:27, Deepika Ghuriani wrote:
>  > > ->Get the MBR fixed and make the system dual boot.
>  > 
>  > An old, old trick, may not help so much these days, but:
>  > 
>  > - boot from a DOS floppy (!)
>  > - > fdisk /mbr
> 
> I don't think you want to do that with a post-XP Windows system,
> though.  You need to keep a copy of the Windows MBR.

You need to setup grub to recognize both windows and Linux installs.
You could do this using a Linux boot CD, but if you are squeamish about
dealing with grub, you might be better to reinstall Ubuntu and let it
setup grub.  Maybe someone using Ubuntu could advise.

Edward