Billy Tallis wrote: > How is the FC2 install even writing a single byte to my XP hard drive? It's not completely clear from your report that that is the case. There could just be something wrong with your grub setup. If I were in your position I would get tomsrtbt - Linux on a floppy - or Knoppix, and run fdisk from that to see what it thinks your setup is. In fact I would use fdisk to set up the Linux partitions before installing Fedora. It might be worth trying "grub-install --recheck /dev/hde2" or whatever, using the Fedora disk #1 in rescue mode. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland