On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:33, Stanton Finley wrote: > There is a recovery partition on many Gateway machines, including my > GT5034 Dual Athlon. Writing grub to the MBR in a dual boot scenario > causes this machine to automatically go into recovery mode, restoring > Windows and overwriting the MBR which removes grub. That seems like something that should have an option in the cmos setup to disable. If not, I guess a grub floppy or CD would work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx