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Topic: DSL installed to HDD but I can't access it, Grub not loading to windows MBR

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EFwis

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Joined: Mar. 2006

Posted: Mar. 26 2006,22:54

ok, here is my situation,

I did the hdd install to a seperate HDD on my machine, I dual boot with Windows XP. I used to use Ubuntu, but because of disk space requirements, I need a lighter version of Linux.

When I had Ubuntu installed, Grub would automatically put the necessary entries for me to access either Windows or Ubuntu, but with DSL it doesn't do this, so here I am with a Linux drive and no access to it.

How can I get Grub to work on this setup? I use NTFS on Windows, and I don't swap between the two OS's so I have no need for a fat32 swap space.

if I set my linux drive to boot first then I get that lovely error 17 from Grub.

Any ideas???