thanks for the help, I made my redhat hd the master and managed to get mandrake to boot. something odd though was the fact that in the grub.conf that came with redhat, it had initrd /initrd.conf or something and when I did the same thing with the mandrake block, it didn't work, I had to put initrd=/initrd.conf, any ideas why? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list