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I did a re-install of Fedora 5 making sure that Grub was to be loaded on hda and it still does the same thing. Here is what happens when I reboot. It says "GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17" Then it shows a cursor flashing at the bottom and nothing else happens. It won't allow me to type anything and nothing loads. My only choice is to restart with the iso dvd and force a mount using linux rescue. I hope that you have some idea what the problem can be as I am out of ideas

Thanks for the quick response danleff. I will try to answer your questions as thouroughly as I can. I did not physically reformat the linux partitions, I had fedora install do it with the option of formating the existing linux partitions. What it did beyond that I do not really know. Is there a way for me to reformat the linux partitions only and start over using fdisk or some other linux tool? In rescue mode, I did chroot /mnt/sysimage first, then I typed in grub-install /dev/hda. After working for a few seconds, it came back with the error that I mentioned above. I will try to re-install fedora now, but if it did not get rid of the linux partitions when i ran it the first time I have no faith that it will do it the second. I will post back after the re-install with the results of the re-install. Yes, I am sure that I installed Grub to the mbr on hda. I have looked at grub.conf at it seems to backup my theory that it was installed on the hda mbr. I don't know how to read the grub.conf very well, but it said #boot=dev/hda so I am assuming that is where it was installed.

I am hoping that someone can help me with my problem. I read some of the other questions along these lines, but none solved my problem. I have XP Home on HDA and I had Ubuntu Breezy on HDB2. There was no problem with Ubuntu, but I decided to try out Fedora. I used the Fedora DVD to reformat my existing linux partions and use the default Fedora partitions. I set up Grub to install in the MBR on HDA, but now, when I try to boot I get a Error 17 after Grub starts and I can not boot Fedora or XP. Here is my current HD FS setup: HDA is NTFS. HDB1 is NTFS. HDB2 is Linux and HDB3 is Linux LVM. I tried grub-install /dev/hda, but I get an error saying "/dev/hdb2 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." Everything worked fine when I dual booted with Ubuntu, so why am I having these problems with Fedora 5? Thanks in advance for all your help