failed dual boot. Options

[Maccabee]

I wanted to dual boot windows xp and linux mint, so I ran the mint live cd and used the partition editor to shrink the main partition by 8gb. I then installed linux mint in that unallocated 8gb. I thought I would next restart my computer and have a black screen with white text, and I would choose linux mint, or windows xp. But instead there was a linux mint screen that had one option for linux mint, one option for linux mint safe mode and two options for windows xp. So I chose the first one, and it started a hard drive restore?! So finally when it was done it started asking me the questions that it asks when you first install xp! So I did everything and when it got to the desktop it looked like it did when I first got it! Thankfully my files were intact though...

So what happened? And how do I get into linux mint? Because my hard drive is now 8gb smaller. When I restart it boots straight into xp? So what did I do run and how do I fix it?

[illriginal]

Gotta go into mint, modify the boot loader, and add Windows into the loader.


Google.. use it.


All that crap you went through... is not native to the Linux that I have used. I haven't tried mint.. I thought that was just a highly lite version of Ubuntu.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Gotta go into mint, modify the boot loader, and add Windows into the loader.
Google.. use it.
All that crap you went through... is not native to the Linux that I have used. I haven't tried mint.. I thought that was just a highly lite version of Ubuntu.

Mint is one of those distros that babies you through everything. I personally dislike it, but I know a lot of people love it because it comes with all the codecs and plugins like flash preinstalled.

I'll stick to my beloved Debian.