dham

Hi, I don't know a lot of linux, but i am running in to a problem in dualbooting XP with FC3 on Dell Dimension 3000(with XP-HOME), which i very recently bought. H/W: Dell Dimension 3000 Pentium IV 2.99Ghz Processor 256MB PC2-3200 DDR2 SDRAM 80 Gig Harddrive After reading on forums and net, the took the following steps: - Cleaned all the partitions. - With QtParted, created a 100MB(/dev/hda1) partition and left the rest unused. - Pointed Windows XP to create three partitions from the free space during its setup-process: * 10GB - to install XP * 50GB - as logical partion * Rest to be used for when fedora asks for space. - Windows XP installs fine. - This is a Dell CD. Now Fedora core 3 - choose the manual partions option and indicate to use the free space. - Pointed /boot to the initial 100MB(/dev/hda1) - Created Swap and / partition in unused space. - Modified advanced bootloader option to install it in /boot (/dev/hda1) instead of MBR. Now after everything goes through, when i see bootup the system, I DON'T SEE THE GRUB screen, instead it boots directly in Win-XP. After getting frustrated with this, i indicate the FC3 install process to overwrite the MBR. NOW, ONLY FC3 is there in the system and bootloader won't see Windows XP!!! During bootup, if i press F2, i see dell boot menu... Am i missing something? Please help.. Thanks, Dham

LInuxCrusader: Your tip was very helpful. Installing Grub on MBR and modifying the grub.conf with the following worked for me. title Windoz rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Thanks for your help, Dham