Boot Partition

[Scott Taylor]

I THINK my boot partition is /dev/hda2 (which is where GRUB used to be), how can I tell whether it actually has the boot code in this partition, because I think this partition should be made active.   At the moment according to Partition Magic, /dev/hda1 is active (Windows). Using Boot Magic (which points to /dev/hda2), I still cannot seem to boot linux as it freezes at INIT: version 2.8.4 booting   Regards   Scott