ok here i go..sorry for the long post, I have tried many thing before I posted this. I have a P III 1 GHZ Toshiba Magnia 510D W/ 60 GB HDD DVD ROM IOMEGA CDRW I am running windows xp on a 60 gb Hdd with a 5gb (NTFS) partition. I also have a 60 gb (FAT32) partition and the end of the hhd that I store my data. My partitions look like this: /dev/hda -> entire hdd (60 GB) /dev/hda1 -> NTFS (5 GB) /dev/hda2 -> FAT32 (30 GB) [At end of drive] /dev/hda3 -> Extended Partition (6 GB) /dev/hda5 -> /boot (500 MB) /dev/hda6 -> (500 MB) /dev/hda7 -> / (5 GB) I want to run Red Hat 7.2. So I boot from the CD. I do the basic steps. I MAKE SURE to select the LILO boot loader and choose to install in the first section of the boot partition (hda5). I make formart the drives and install the packages. I make the boot floopy and boot into the Red hat 7.2 I login as root. I do the "dd if=/dev/hda5 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1". I then copy it to aDOS boot disk then copy it to the root of my C partition. I edit the boot.ini and added the line at the end of the boot.ini file c:\bootsect.lnx="linux" I save the file and reboot with all the attribute changed and when I choose "linux" all I get is a a flashing cursur. I can sucessfully boot into XP and I can successfully boot in Red hat with the boot disk but I can't get a dual boot option. Any help will be more than appreciated.

I have dual booted XP and RH 7.2, and I have also gotten the flashing cursor. The reason that I got the flashing cursor was because I made some changes to /etc/lilo.conf then at the prompt I ran "lilo", but I forgot to update c:\bootsect.lnx Try this, Boot into Linux and login as root, then type "lilo" [enter], now type "dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1" [enter]Now mount your fat partition and move /bootsect.lnx to the fat partition, boot into windows and move "bootsect.lnx" to the root of c: The last thing I would do is check boot.ini The easiest way to do this without changing permissions is to right click "my computer"->"properties"->"advanced tab"->startup and recovery options(settings button)->edit button I used this method without changing any permissions and it worked. Good luck.