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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Ok, I had a massive go at reinstalling it yesterday. I loaded windows xp pro. Then I installed linux on a separate partition, and had another partition for the swap file. Then, I installed grub, but not on the mbr, on the linux partition instead. However, during startup. the grub loader wasn't there, instead it just went straight into windows, i'd imagine because grub wasn't in the mbr. So when i get to this point, how do I go about getting grub to start up? I installed powerquest bootmagic. This worked in that it brought up a selection for windows and linux, windows worked. But when I selected linux, it linked to grub, and a grub prompt appeared:
grub >
this didn't do a whole lot, mainly because I didn't know what I was doing. Anyway, I then rebooted and the mbr had been screwed up again. So I need to reinstall again. Back to square one!