> 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
