On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:07, Krikket wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Paolo wrote: >Snip< > > now the real issue, > > I installed fc1 but when I boot the machine I can only boot windowsXp, > > there is no sign of grub ( I installed it the MBR) The only thing I can figure is that you either installed GRUB to the MBR of the second hard drive, or to the boot sector of a partition or it wasn't actually installed anywhere. Assuming you booted into linux using a disk, get onto a terminal as root and issue the command: grub-install /dev/hda That should get you going. Scott