i have an XP system and i want to install linux on my secondary drive. my main drive is a SCSI drive. /dev/sda1

i have a secondary drive which is a blank partitioned FAT IDE drive. MAXTOR 40GB. /dev/hdd/

i have a third drive as well. but its NTSF.

here's what i did...

i installed linux on the secondary drive. installation went fine.

i cant seem to get GRUB to come up at bootup. it just automatically loads into windows XP. the only way i can boot into linux is buy having the bootup linux disc in the floppy drive at boot up. i had GRUB installed into /dev/hdd/. is that wrong?

i also noticed that it didnt mount my 40GB drive that i had linux installed on. do i need to repartition this drive? is there a way i can mount it w/out reinstalling linux?

thx in advance...

Is hdd set first in the BIOS boot order?

ok.

thx, i did change the order and now the GRUB window comes up and now i have the choice. BUT, when i choose "DOS" i get a "missing NTLDR" file error???? but if i change the order back to SCSI than IDE XP launches ok... any idea?

Check your grub.conf file and make sure it is configured to look at your SCSI drive.

david,

thx for your help. the bios thing was definitely the issue. i'd re-installed linux and made sure boot loader was following the same bios bootdisk config. everything works fine now..

thx for your help!