Re: Lost Dual Boot Screen

jr4939 wrote:

I'm having a Lost-Dual-Boot-Screen problem again. Last time I resolved
it by re-installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my Dell Dimension 8300 (Windows XP
SP 3) using a recent wubi download. Had gotten several responses to my
previous help call which hadn't helped. Later realized that they all
seemed to involve using the grub menu to restore the dual boot menu.
However, I never get near the grub menu when the dual boot screen is
missing. That is, after the first pre-bootstrap screen, the machine
goes right into Windows startup screens. Pressing F8 gives me the
usual choices, and the chance to choose (only) Windows to boot into.

Everything had worked fine after the wubi re-install, through several
reboots, and I even learned a few new things about Ubuntu and Linux.
However, for totally unrelated reasons, I had occasion to use a dandy
program called BootSafe which *may* have caused the problem. That is,
it fools around with system innards enuf to get you into Safe Mode
without requiring use of F8, and, once in Safe Mode, one uses the
program to return to a "normal" bootup. In any case, the next time I
rebooted, the dual boot screen had gone missing again.

TIA from a clueless newbie for any clues, or solution other than
another install!

I don't know what "wubi" is, but I'd hesitate installing anything that
will mess with your MBR (if that's indeed what caused it). I've never
heard of BootSafe either. Anyway, just get a Linux boot disk and
install for grub, lilo, or whatever, from there.
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
.

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