I just installed Fedora Core 1, made a /boot partition on hdb3 and created a boot disk, and since i want to use the xp boot loader i created a bootsect.lnx with: dd if=/dev/hdb3 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 , copied it to c:\ and made the changes in boot.ini in win. I have done this at least 10 times before, but now when i choose linux from the boot menu, grub hangs with a "cursor" blinking in the upper left corner of the screen. The boot disk works fine though... Anyone with a tip on where to look for solving this? Thanx, kh