Solved.

I tried: apt-get install grub-pc /dev/sda
and: sudo apt-get install grub-pc /dev/sda
but got error messages.

Next: sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub

worked but it got hung up on one of the commands so I killed the operation, however, after reboot linux automatically opened up. I also can boot into xp.

btw - in response to syg00: I did do the sudo update-grub after reboot yesterday.

Thank you all very much.

Great mark the thread as solved at top of the post.

The Windows process is much much better.

Rubbish.
Your posts make no sense. XP doesn't recognise Linux filesystems.

It will if you install through Windows....