I installed Fedora Core 3 on /dev/sda2 and the installation seemed to go okay. However, when I tried rebooting into Linux, grub hangs with the message: "Grub loading stage2...". I booted off the installation DVD using "linux rescue" and even though /boot/grub/grub.conf seemed to look okay, I tried # grub-install /dev/sda2 --recheck # dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 I then booted into Windows XP, copied bootsect.lnx to C:\, and added C:\bootsect.ini="Fedora Core 3" to boot.ini. I still get the same message when trying to boot Fedora. I also tried creating a Grub boot floppy and get the same error using it. I would like to be able to dual boot XP and Fedora. I want to use the Windows XP boot manager, a boot floppy for Fedora, or a boot CD for Fedora. I do not want to overwrite the Windows XP boot managers with Grub. The kernel seems to be too big to fit on a floppy. Is there a way to make a boot floppy? What about a CD? I looked at some how to's but they mention using "mkbootdisk" which I can't find even though I installed pretty much everything. What about using the XP boot manager? Is there a way to get this dual booting to work with two SATA drives in a hardware RAID 1 configuration? Below is some more information. Thanks for your help, Paul # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 17675060 4894012 11883208 30% / /dev/sda2 101105 10063 85821 11% /boot none 7163 4939 1815 74% /dev/pts /dev/fd0 1424 195 1229 14% /mnt/floppy # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6527 52428096 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 6528 6540 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 6541 9039 20073217+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 6527 52428096 7 HPFS/NTFS # mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw,defaults) /dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw,defaults) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,defaults) none on /proc type proc (rw,defaults) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,defaults) /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy type vfat (rw) # lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID 3qXdwo-ohbN-rAmK-kl0X-uI6h-IG8I-ATiA10 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 17.12 GB Current LE 548 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID hHRCNp-NXwo-cEZk-NnDD-Nrez-cWGj-7N9Asx LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.94 GB Current LE 62 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 # ls -al /boot total 4230 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 16 16:29 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Nov 19 04:00 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44647 Nov 2 15:00 config-2.6.9-1.667 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 19 03:57 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1583431 Nov 16 16:19 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Nov 16 11:16 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81860 Sep 29 14:42 memtest86+-1.26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 848039 Nov 2 15:00 System.map-2.6.9-1.667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1719103 Nov 2 15:00 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 # cat /boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb ==============================================================================================