Alex Williamson wrote: > I work as the IT guy at a small private school. > > I'm trying to help students buy inexpensive computers using a free OS > and software. > I needed to test the latest free Linux on my workstation as a dual boot. > > I installed Cheap-Bytes Fedora Core 4 on an WinXP machine's second EIDE > drive. > The installation went fine but on reboot no GRUB loader menu showed, > just plain old XP. > > I tried this on an identical machine and got the same results. If this is still an issue on some machines you can also write an entry into NTLDR to access your linux partition on that second drive. This is old but still works... http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php timo