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

[Damjan Georgievski]

>   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