However, I still can not boot winXP off the hard disk. After I flushed the MBR, when I try to boot, all I get is a blank screen with a cursor. I can still boot with the winXP floppy and linux with the GRUB boot floppy. I can also boot windows with the GRUB boot floppy.
I created two Partition Magic rescue disks which have a copy of the MBR, so I can probably go back that way, but that would not solve the problem, because I would be back where I was before I ran the dd command. Maybe I can re-install GRUB, but now I feel I am in really uncharted waters and nervous to mess up my system further. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks. Gus.
You do want to reinstall GRUB. I can't help you too much since I'm not at the machine, but look around your system for a "grub-install" command and check its man page. I believe you want to run "grub-install /dev/hda" (assuming hda is your hard drive), but I'm not sure.
Once you can boot GRUB, then simply modify /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it offers you Windows XP as one of the choices of bootable operating systems. You will have to Google, or check archives, or something for the right text to put in there (and you will have to know in which partition you have placed WinXP).
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