I have a Dell Latitude 600. I installed XP first then RH linux 7.3. I then did a grub-install '(hd0,0)' to install grub to the primary partition. I have winxp on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda4. hda6, hda7, and hda8 are for linux. hda8 is the root, hda7 is /boot and hda6 is swap. Then I modified the grub.conf file the contents are as follows: default=0 timeout=30 splashimage=(hd0,6)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Linux kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 root=/dev/hda8 title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Linux boots correctly after I clikc linux in the splash screen but when I click windows xp it does not give any error but just displays the splash screen again. No error is thrown. I have tried all possible combinations even kept only windows xp in the grub.conf file, doesnt work. My boot.ini just has xp details in it. Please help.

Joel, If you have installed windows xp on /dev/hda1, then the line in your /etc/grub.conf file that says rootnoverify (hd0,0) should be changed to rootnoverify (hd0,1).