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Well, I typed the commands at the A:/ prompt, but I got a "bad command" error. Could I have done something wrong configuring the boot disk? I went to another XP machine, went into "My Computer", right-clicked the floppy drive, then checked the box to format it as a boot disk. Nonetheless, it doesn't respond to those commands.
As far as LILO, the first time I tried it, I didn't compile it, so perhaps that's it. I'll keep at it.
Ok, this what the code looks like in Boot Manager:
prompt
timeout="50"
default=winxp
boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot/b
message=/boot/message
linear
image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10"
label="linux"
initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img"
read-only
root="/dev/hdb2"
append="bdc=ide-scsi"
other=/dev/hda
label=linux
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Nonetheless, I'm still given no option and it automatically boots into Linux.
ok, i think you misunderstood cgkanchi's suggestion. do you have the windows XP install disk? or did it come installed on yuor computer? even if it came installed, they should have given you a recovery disk. put that in, then reboot your computer. it should give you the option of repair or recovery or something along those lines. it will come up with what looks like a command prompt, but it is called the recovery prompt. type "fixmbr" without the quotes. it will ssay something about if you do this you may not be able to access some partitions. say yes anyway. then reboot. it should boot in to windows XP. from there, you can go in to disk management and format the linux partitions and install another linux distro (or redhat again)...
slick
Actually I got the work using the Windows installation CD, doing a windows repair. The bootfix and bootmbr worked fine, but when Windows started backup, I was told the checkdisk could not be found, and it would then reboot and repeat that indefinately. So I've since disoconnected that drive and am using a new hard drive until I figure out what the deal is with that one. Any more ideas?