I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on my friends machine and tried all type of ways: Automatic partition Manual Partition Under both conditions while it creates the /boot partition it gives following warning: "Boot Partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly encouraged." what can be the problem? Below is the configuration of its harddisk(40Gb with 256 Mb RAM) as shown by disk druid: /dev/hda /dev/hda1 ntfs 10004 /dev/hda2 ntfs 9996 /dev/hda3 Extended 18154 /dev/hda5 vfat 15002 /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 103 /dev/hda7 / ext3 2540 /dev/hda8 swap 509 Free Free space 7 Below is the boot loader configuration which is shown after the partition is done: DOS /dev/hda1 Red Hat Linux /dev/hda7 after the installation is completed & when the computer is restarted it shows the grub prompt: GRUB> nothing else....we are not able to access his windows even... I work on FC4 dual boot on my computer and have done FC4 installation on my system (dual boot) many times But I didnt see any /boot warnings ever... how to get past GRUB> prompt and bring his computer back to working state... I would like to mention one more thing: When few months back I tried to install FC4 on his computer, it wouldnt install & instead it would restart the window, probably due to non matching hardware configuration. Thank You destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! <a href="http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1507191490@Middle5?PARTNER=3"><IMG SRC="http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1963059423@Middle5?OAS_query=null&PARTNER=3" BORDER=0 VSPACE=0 HSPACE=0></a>