Gentlemen: Things are getting a little trickier today. So far, on one test computer, I have debian on hda1 and fedora3 on hda3. Each one demands that it write grub to the MBR. If I allow debian to write the MBR, then Fedora doesnt boot. Similarly if I let Fedora write to the MBR, then Debian doesnt boot. After going back and forth for a while, I have Debian to where it will boot and Fedora to where it will almost boot. Fedora displays an unusual message right after md: ... autorun DONE. EXT2-fs warning (device hda3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks And the Fedora boot hangs forever at this point. Would anyone be willing to suggest a next step or two? Charles