Basil Chupin wrote:
insists on installing it on the SECOND hard drive - in my case, hdc- the MBR of hdc.
as long as I know, there is only _one_ MBR, that of the first disk seen by the bios (I don't know if swapping the disk _in the bios_ changes this). this could explain the problem (?) anyway, I always advocate installing on a first step the bootloader _on the first sector of the linux partition_ (for example /dev/hda8 in place of /dev/hda, the MBR). this allow, for example, to have any linux or windows take precedence on the MBR and redirecting to the /dev/hda8 - very simple, even in XP (edit "boot.ini") it's also possible to edit the "bootable" bit of the given partition and it may - but not always - boot on it. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr