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Hi Danleff, I tried everything and still no success. I read everything regarding this topic.. maybe i'm doing something wrong.. I have a 80G sata drive alone. First situation: Win XP is on the first partition: hd0,0 or sda1 (15G) other 2 ntfs partitions (sda4=extended) sda5(30G),sda6(25G),remaining free space is 5G. I installed Fedora Core 4 (making a separate /boot partition) on the last 5G free. Everything works fine (i've tried it many times with different configs) but in the end no matter where I install grub, mbr or the first sector of the /boot partition (i've tried the solution with dual-booting by using boot.ini) the same stupid thing happens: I get a grub > prompt and from there nothing goes.. the root command shows the right /boot partition (hd0,</boot_partition_number>). devices are ok: fd and hd0=/dev/sda Second situation: Everything is the same, but I moved the Windows system partition 350 M to the right and I created the /boot partition there, thinking it might have been because of the location outside the first 1024 cylinder boundary.. the same result: no matter how I try to dual boot I just get the grub prompt. Third situation: I burned the Fedora core 5 beta iso and installed it. Grub menu showed with the two options:FC4 and Win XP, after installing it on the mbr. So although the system didn't boot properly (I wasn't interested to) the loader installed itself on the mbr perfectly with no "extra" options as some would say... I've reviewed your advice to the others many times and couldn't get the boot menu.. it just gives me the grub prompt. Any ideas?