> I bought a new compaq computer with win xp partitioned the > drive installed fedora with grub to load. I had everything > working then I booted windows it goes into pc recovery and > overwrites the boot section so it only will boot windows. > Is there a way to get this to work? If not is there a > way to make a boot cd to access the linux partition. Just an idea: Try re-installing grub to your boot partition or root partition (wherever you boot) and then use the NT boot loader in XP to load linux. This way you are not re-writing the MBR. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html Mauriat