> 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?

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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