On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:05, Stephen Rohl wrote: > however, when my computer restarted, my > dell startup screen came up as normal. then the word "GRUB" came up on > a black screen. it is in the upper left hand corner with a blinking > cursor next to it. This just means that you have grub installed but not configured properly to look at /dev/hdb (2nd HD) to boot from it. > i am not able to type anything Now this is weird. How come? Can you still boot into XP?? How are you sending this email?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:53:32 up 6:41, 7 users, load average: 1.49, 1.52, 1.45