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echo: win95
to: Mike Powell
from: Jeff Guerdat
date: 2009-03-17 20:39:54
subject: Re: Getting Rid of XP Boot Men

Mike Powell wrote:

> Actually, linux is installed, and grub is installed in the mbr.  I would
> have thought that would have gotten rid of the Windows XP boot menu, but it
> did not.  It must not be in the mbr.

Nope - the boot sector simply starts it off.  By passing control to a 
copy of the code, it will call the normal XP boot process including the 
boot menu.  If you don't want to see the menu, simply set the timeout in 
boot.ini to 0.

-- 
Jeff Guerdat

If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
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