Windows killed my sleep

As I wrote about earlier, I was stupid enough to install XP as a dual-booting system on my computer. Since I don't feel like getting dirty with wine or cedega everytime I want to relax with a fine game, I thought: "What the heck, launching Windows once in a while can't hurt, can it?"

Well, it can. And it did. I had to reboot with a a live-cd a couple of times before I got it right. If I (against all reason) decided to keep Windows and to actually start it now and then, it would rewrite my mbr every time. So what to do? Apparently I had to add Linux as a menu item in the NTLDR ("NT Loader", the Windows boot manager), make it the default choice and set the timeout to a low value (most of the work is outlined here). Then my Grub installation would be called and I would have my normal boot menu back, with a "WinXP" menu item added.

Any problems with this approach, more than that it had to be done at all? Yes, unfortunately. Since I started to use NTLDR, I can no longer hibernate my computer. When I click "Log out" in the Gnome "System" menu and choose "Hibernate", it goes down for a few seconds and then back on again. I don't know if I will have time to look more seriously into this. Sad because I recently started to use and enjoy the hibernation ("sleep") function. It's wonderful to be able to shutdown the computer with a lot of documents open, and restart it the day after with everything in the same place I left it.

Oh, and the weather is cold and wet. I hate it.