Hi; I don't seem to be able to chainload to WindowsXP anymore. My grub.conf in /boot/grub/ includes: ... title WindowsXP SP3 rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 41.0 GB, 40981069312 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders, total 80041151 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa6a9a6a9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 63649529 31824733+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2 63649530 80035829 8193150 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 63649593 80035829 8193118+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976771055 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00066c56 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 21506048 25602047 2048000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 1026048 21506047 10240000 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 25602048 976769023 475583488 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 25604096 935809023 455102464 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 935811072 976769023 20478976 b W95 FAT32 Partition table entries are not in disk order grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found but from a vterminal grub> find /grub/stage1 find /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) (hd1,0) Yet, the /boot partition exists, and contains my /grub/grub.conf file. Any changes I make in this file show up in the grub menu at boot up. Has grub been changed to ignore the /boot? Why is 'find' telling me I have two disks with stage1. I have only one (hd1,0), Could it by finding a stage1 file on my (hd0,4) - my linux backup partition? How? It hasn't been added to fstab yet. Then, grub> root (hd1,0) root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 26 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+26 p (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... succeeded Done. However, as a double check I ran grub-install # grub-install hd1 Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. # this device map was generated by anaconda (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb Now here is where it gets really confusing: When grub.conf in /boot/grub/ includes: title Fedora (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 ro root=UUID=20... etc. Fedora won't boot. But when I change it to the following (hd0,0): title Fedora (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 ro root=UUID=20 Fedora boots. And yet more: >From a vterminal as root grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc grub> root (hd1,0) root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> root (hd2,0) root (hd2,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> As one would expect. However when I repeat the process from the command line of the grub menu I get: grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc grub> root (hd1,0) root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc grub> root (hd2,0) root (hd2,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Finally, as a test to see if WindowsXP will boot on its own, without the use of grub, using my WindowsXP Recovery Console, tried to restore the MBR. WindowsXP would no longer boot. Two outstanding other pieces of information. I thought sda (hd0) was failing and removed the cables to save it. Reattaching the cables seemed to fix everything. I can mount sda and see all my partitions and data on both disks. No more spin up problems are being recorded by 'Smart'. I re-installed Fedora 14 but his should not have mucked up the windows (sda) installation order as can some times happen. I have 'yum remove grub' and then reinstalled. Same thing. That's it. It feels like I have two grubs but I can't find a second one. Any suggestions on what I should try next? -- Regards Bill Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32 Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1