I initially had windows xp and then installed linux 9. I was not able to get windows to boot. I redid the grub.conf and added "hide (hd1,0) unhide (hd0,0)" because windows was on the first drive and linux is on a seperate drive. after doing this, windows booted once. I went to reboot and now all I get is a "grub>" prompt and instructions. I have tried to use linux rescue from the installation cd, and found that my boot disk no longer works. I am tempted to simply reload windows and hope that it will come back, but ?I really want them both to work. PLEASE HELP.

Can you boot Linux using the boot floppy you created? If not, what happens when you boot to linux using the installation CD and type "linux rescue". When you get to the command line type: chroot /mnt/sysimage This will put you back in linux. If you get this far check which partitions you have. For the first disk type: fdisk -l /dev/hda For the second disk type: fdisk -l /dev/hdb Type the contents of grub.conf by typing: cat /boot/grub/grub.conf Post the output of the fdisk commands and the contents of the grub.conf files if you get this far.

The followup to what was asked for is as follows. I found that myt boot disk no longer works. As far as the fdsik commands go: /dev/hda has device /dev/hda1 * 1 2503 20105316 c win95fat32 /dev/hdb1 * 1 492 3951958+ 93 Amoeba /dev/hdb2 493 534 257040 82 Linux swap the grub.conf is: default=1 timeout = 10 splashimage= (hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash:xpm.gz password - - title Redhat linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img title windows xp map (hd1,0) (hd0,0) map (hd0,0) (hd1,0) rootnoverify chainloader +1 I have even tried using the hide coomand within the grub.conf and it does not work. It did allow me to boot windows once and from that time on all i get now when i reboot or power up is a grub prompt with instructions above it. I even tried to boot to rescue mode and redo grub with an old copy and it will not work. I think that i may need to reload xp to get funtional but i really like linux and want it to run also. Maybe I need to looad them both on the one disk and use the other for storage only? Please help if you can and thank you in advance.