please disregard most of the previous post, i was in a hurry and looking back on it it wasnt particularly well thought out although in my experience windows does like to be in the first partition Ok all going well i think this will work install grub to mbr of hdd1: # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda grub.conf in /boot/grub/ should look something like this: # # Sample boot menu configuration file # # Boot automatically after 20 sec. timeout 20 # By default, boot the 1st entry. default 0 # Fallback to the first entry. fallback 1 title Windows 2000 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 # For booting Linux title Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hdb3 Make sure that its the copy in /boot/grub/ that you are looking at as this is the one grub is actually using. I believe redhat has a grub.conf in /etc/ that its scripts use and I'm not sure how that gets modified and copied into /boot/grub/ If you get the grub prompt up rather than the menu chances are that the config file should be named menu.1st rather than grub.conf, this is what debian uses. If you get to the prompt it means it has booted the stage 2 loader which is in /boot/grub so the problem is the config file is not where/what grub thinks it should be ie grub is looking for another name or is looking somewhere else for it hope this helps Jason