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I am new to linux. I just installed redhat9 on a seperate disk of 30gb. Windows xp is on disk C (NTFS) (IDE) with 60gb. The installation is ok. I installed GRUB on MBR. Then reboot, only GRUB shows and freezes right there. Have to ctrl-alt-del to restart and grub freezes again and again. I reinstalled redhat, this time GRUB on the first section, instead of MBR. Still the same thing. Fortunately I have a boot disk, everytime I can use linux, but not windows. I tried to revise grub.conf under /boot/grub/, but still, the same thing happens. Please help me! Thank you!

Thanks, gfolkert, I tried very hard to make it work, but still failed. I downloaded mandrake 9.1 and installed, hoping to correct this problem. Two hard drives: windows (hd0,1,4,5) linux (hd1,4,5) current menu.lst: ----------------------------------------------------------- timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd1,0)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd1,0)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 title linux kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off0 vga=788 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,1) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I downloaded grub, and installed it manually, but still not working. The only difference now is: when booting, serveral lines of 07 07 07 ... show up, then "press F1 for retry booting ..." I am not sure now grub boots from hda or hdb, since I tried to install it under both, and under MBR and first section too, when I have redhat. Now I think mandrake covers redhat. Now I can use my mandrake to boot into linux, use grub floppy to boot into windows (by inputting chainloader commends at grub>), but not a menu showing up for choice. Really frustrated. Thanks.