Re: dual boot

After a long battle with technology, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> OK, I have a system that had XP on it; I loaded Ubuntu on it in the
> dual-boot method, and now, when I boot the system, I can't move the
> selection to start it in XP...it is set on Ubuntu, and that's it......
>
> What am I missing? I just can't move that selection highlited bar to
> XP.......

Does GRUB accept any keyboard input at all? If not, and you have a USB
keyboard, you probably need to go into the BIOS Setup and make sure that a
setting like "emulate PS/2 keyboard for USB keyboards" is Y. Since GRUB
relies on the BIOS for everything until stage 2 is loaded, this can happen to
people. I can't be specific on which setting to change because all BIOSes
are different, but it should be easy to find.

If GRUB does accept keyboard input, but it's impossible to get the GRUB menu
to highlight one entry, then reproduce your /boot/grub/grub.conf for us.

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