I know this is a little off topic but I have been working on an HP 6000dv x64 for almost a week trying to get it to dual boot Vista and PCLinuxOS, I have set up dual boot in the same config many times with Dells but never an HP yet.  If anyone ever does this, make sure you burn the restore disk first!  I had forgotten that was a must for HP, $28 later....and an old Win 98SE cd for the fdisk /mbr was the only way the recovery disk would work. For a reason unknown yet, this particular computer really did not like the partition change that I applied from within Linux.  It just would not boot into Vista but had no problems with Linux. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Dec 6, 2007 7:55 PM, Chick Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> If I recall correctly, Ubuntu will leave the entries for other boot selections alone when you update it.  (I haven't used it in a while.) However, if you let another distro create its own menu and reinstall GRUB, there's no guarantee it will include what's already in menu.lst. I would recommend keeping a copy of menu.lst someplace other than where it's located (/boot/grub in Slackware) in case you want to restore it.                                Chick Benjamin Cathey wrote: > My question is - when ubuntu does a kernel update and changes the > menu itself (or the other distro) will I be losing the settings for > the distro that ISN'T the one updating? _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user </a> </blockquote></div> -- Running Linux? Are you completely out of your mind.  That thing is a rip-off.  It comes with no viruses, no Trojans, no malware , etc .......