> > I do have a grub boot floppy, but it is looking for my > > grub.conf on the 8th partition (part of what's hidden). > > I think the error comes up before I have had a chance to > > get to the grub shell. > > so if you boot off the floppy, you get an error immediately; before it gives > you a menu (where you can edit the command by pressing 'e'), or a command > line? Yes it looks like this: <boot from grub floppy> ...last line of BIOS/hardware stuff GRUB _ ...And that _ is flashing <boot without Floppy, Grub on MBR of Hard Drive> ...last line of BIOS/hardware stuff GRUB Loading Stage 1.5. GRUB loading, Please Wait... Error 22 ...and that's it. Mike