jamie - 6:39 pm on Jan 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

here's the update:

i have now completely reinstalled redhat 8 on the primary slave and installed grub to that disk's boot partition (as recommended by littlewhitedog [littlewhitedog.com])

theory then was to boot to linux and copy the boot partition over to windows, so that i could use the windows mbr to choose which os.

i am unable to boot to linux though?

if i leave the boot disk in and start the pc, it gives me a 'boot failed' (i have tried 2 different boot disks), or if i unplug the primary master and just try and boot from the linux disk, the boot sequence starts, it detects the hard drive and cd-rom and then hangs on

LI_

i have installed redhat twice to see if the installation was the problem, but everything appeared to go well.

btw - the problem with windows freezing is easily solved - i simply disable the primary slave in the device manager (tip from someone who had found this post in google and experienced the same problem :) )

anyone know why redhat won't boot? especially as it booted fine when i installed grub to the mbr the first time around. it just doesn't seem to like grub installed on its own boot partition (hdb1)

cheers