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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=968543823-12022005><FONT size=3>Thanks
for the replies guys.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN class=968543823-12022005>I believe that I
forced the reiserfs option at the beginning of the install. However, I am not
sure about this. I have since reinstalled using a manual partitioning of /boot =
ext2fs; / = ext2fs and a swap partition. All of these are on
hdb.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN class=968543823-12022005>I did use
grub-install /dev/hda to install grub to the MBR.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN class=968543823-12022005>I had the same
problem as before. (Error 17 during Stage 1.5). You don't get as far as a grub
command line. You have to reboot with a floppy containing grub which boots to
the command line. You can then boot either OS by the manual method I described
in my earlier post.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN class=968543823-12022005>However, what is
really strange is that I have installed grub to another floppy. This boots fine
and presents me with a lovely Fedora splash image and menu containing both the
options in my grub.conf file. I can then boot both Fedora and Windows XP from
this menu.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN class=968543823-12022005>Why though, does it
work from floppy and not from my MBR? Obviously I don't want a floppy in the
computer every time I boot.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>