I think grub itself is installed OK but maybe you don't have the right stuff in your menu.lst. I always have a hard time getting it straight when I first set it up.
I have a grub boot for Slackware, Windows 2000 and BeOS. Here is the line that gets me to the Win2k boot menu: title Windows 2000/NT/98 boot menu root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 It is conceivable that grub installs a partition map that reflects the size of your whole hard drive. With your old bios that could cause problems. Try checking what your partition table is while grub is installed after booting linux. Use cfdisk, fdisk or sfdisk. You can get the most detailed and concise dump of your partition table with: sfdisk -d /dev/sda that dumps the partition table in terms of sectors. Quite unfortunately, the partition table on an IBM-compatible PC is in the same disk sector as the initial boot loader, sector 0 of the drive, towards the end. Hard drives have to always be written or read in 512 byte sectors. In order to write the initial code for a new boot loader to your drive, what is done is to read the old boot sector, copy the partition table into an image of the new boot sector in memory, then copy that out to offset zero on the drive in one 512-byte chunk. So installing a new boot loader also writes a new partition table, which hopefully is identical to the original, but I can see how corruption might occur. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
