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511429	2006-12-31 23:35:00	I have XP on one HDD and on another have Xandros 4.0 and Ubuntu 6.10. At present the MBR is on the same drive as XP but I am going to delete XP and would like the MBR on the same drive as the linux OS's. If I delete Xp then restore Xandros will lilo present the option for me to put the MBR on the linux disk and if so what do I answer when questioned about the new setup.I mean at present I put in 1 then have questions which require yes or no answers.And I have made mistakes with the Y or N in the past.	kjaada (253)
511430	2007-01-03 08:06:00	Can you be more specific about what questions you are referring to? Unless someone has installed Xandros recently, no one knows what those questions are.	Jen (38)
511431	2007-01-03 15:35:00	Basically: Wipe your XP disc Boot off the Xandros InstallCD and use it to re-install Lilo. You can install it anywhere you like, although it may not even be affected by the formatting of drive XYZ	Chilling_Silence (9)
511432	2007-01-03 17:16:00	Jen,The questions I was refering too were the ones that come up in lilo refering to "do you wish to restore Os on XXXX HDD" and so on but I think Chills has answered my Question any way.My puter will not start at all today so I will find out if he is right when I change my HDD to another box. Thanks anyway to everyone.	kjaada (253)
511433	2007-01-04 07:01:00	:) kjaada, First up, Happy New Year. I have thought about your problem for a while and, my suggestion would be to leave everything as far as your current Xandros and Ubuntu partitions alone. Then, if you have a copy of Xandros 3.02 OCE or 3.0, install that into the partition where XP currently is. It should pick up the existence of Xandros 4 on the other drive and put that into the LILO on the MBR where Xandros 3 is installed. You might never actually boot X3 but it would be a quick way of fixing the problem. I am not sure about Ubuntu though. Does it use GRUB or LILO? My experience of mixing GRUB for Mepis and Lilo for Xandros was not satisfactory. I know you had trouble with the same Mepis disk too. If you get Xandros 3 to fix up the LILO, you could then go into Control Center > System > Boot Manager and, after entering your Admin password, choose Xandros 4.0 as your default Operating System. You know that I triple boot three versions of Xandros on my machine - Xandros 3.0 Deluxe on /hda1; 3.02 OCE on /hda3 and 4.0 Home Premium Trial on /hda4. XP has been gone for about 18 months. Jim	Hhel (8073)
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