...reinstall grub.

I followed the long walk through in the wiki only to get nowhere. Rebooted and it booted straight into XP. lol.. any suggestions?

If you are back in XP, you cant have overwritten the mbr properly.  

Check where you are writing to - is it to the mbr of the first hdd in the boot sequence or are you just writing to the partition that linux is installed on?

can be done with an aborted install if youre doing Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24113&highlight=restore+grub

or


1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3. Type "grub"
4. Type "root (hd0,6)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for grub).
5. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.
6. Quit grub by typing "quit".
7. Reboot.

Quote from: TRBIf you are back in XP, you cant have overwritten the mbr properly.  

Check where you are writing to - is it to the mbr of the first hdd in the boot sequence or are you just writing to the partition that linux is installed on?

its was to the root partition of linux which is where I think it was going wrong.

About to try "super grub disk" in a mo

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

yup, there are more ways than one to skin this cat.

MeeeeoooOOOOOOOOOW!

lol.. okay supergrubdisk doesnt work. lol!

The first link max gave is the best way of doing it

Sorted

So whats the latest and greatest about ubuntu? is Dapper ready yet? I seem to recall Max said he was installing it at some point.

Ahhhh im so thankful for finally getting back into my ubuntu install. I never realised how much I missed my evolution + dual spam filtering setup.

372 emails. 364 spam.

All automatically filtered from 4 accounts

Loving it.