Grub configuration??

[arix]

Well, i was running Winxp and ubuntu 7 perfectly, they showed both Os's on the bootloader, the problem now is that i did a fresh xp install and now the pc boots directly to windows, instead of showing the bootloader... What can i do to reconfigure the grub manager so that it could show bot os's?

[kilgoretrout]

Windows overwrote the grub bootloader used by ubuntu. You will have to reinstall it and to do that you will need the livecd. Here's complete instructions:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351

[MichaelG653]

During the reinstall of ubuntu you can configure the bootloader to run off a floppy disk instead of the main hard drive and that would prevent losing your ubuntu configuration if you ever have to reinstall xp again or upgrade it in the future.