Re: [arch-general] grub lost after boot into windows - seen before

I have a simple arch install on an older dell box with a single non-raid drive that still boots with grub. The box is used as part of a media center. Partitioning is simple, sda1 win, sda5 /home, sda6 /, sda7 swap sda8 /boot. The box rarely is booted into XP. The hwclock is manually set via the bios interface when switching between Arch or XP, UTC/localtime.

You can configure XP to use UTC time too (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time#UTC_in_Windows)

Upon reboot, the box would repeatedly reboot to the bios screen. Booting the Arch install disk, chrooting, and reinstalling grub fixed the problem.

Where is grub installed? In the MBR or a partition? What's your XP boot emnu entry? -- damjan