Hi, Billy -- the grub.conf is on the 2nd drive in the grub area. I also tried putting a copy of it on the 1st drive in the root, but no luck. I responded to another message with the contents of the grub.conf. TIA for helping! Max -----Original Message----- From: Billy Tallis [mailto:wjtallis@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:40 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: grub question ... > Max L. Eidswick wrote: >> I have FC3 in several versions loaded on my ThinkPad a31p on both the >> internal 80GB and a second 60GB in the second hard drive slot. >> >> Everything starts ok unless I have swapped the second drive with an >> add-on battery which can use that same slot. When I have the battery >> in, grub say "GRUB loading, please wait.", then "Error 21" and hangs. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? Otherwise, will lilo >> work if I use it instead of grub? > > What's on the second drive? Anything needed for booting? What's in your > grub.conf file? > Also, where is your grub.conf file?