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Thanks Bery, I'm going to try and go mandrake. :)

I checked all the iso images with the md5sum, and all were ok. I even reburned all of the disks at the slowest burn speed and tried installing, same problem.

I tried installing the KDE interface...

Two different opinions from two different credible people.

Let me is if I get this, I should create boot partion and install it on first hd. It could be that grub has been getting installed below...

Problemchild, I still have all disks on my harddrive with the mdsum, however I ran the disk check before installing on all 5 disks and all were ok. How do I use the mdsum files to check the disks in...

I just reinstalled redhat and made sure grub was installed on the mbr.

The final loading bar (the total progress bar had already hit 100%, I'm not sure what this last small, fast moving bar was...

Above, RCGreen mentioned how I could get to a prompt from teh redhat installation disk. After reading your post on repairing grub, I'm still unsure about how to mount my root partion from the prompt.

Nice reply problemchild, I just checked the windows delay settings (in Conrtrol Panel>> Performance and Maintenance>>System>>Advanced>>Startup and Recovery). The delay until the operating system was...

Problemchild, the thing is, I chose the bootloader defaults the first time around, so it should have installed on the mbr. I guess it is possible that xp overwrote the mbr, but why? It was already...

Thanks for the reply, I like the first to options because if I reinstall that means I lose the 8 gigs I partioned for linux on the failed install, right?

Sorry for the new thread, but I feel this problem wouldn't get the attention it deserves at the end of the previous topic. Please forgive me.

Anyway I installed linux redhat 8.0 to dual boot with...