not booting from disk

[Alexander Swen]

Grub2 (aka grub_pc) is very (in my opinion too) picky in where it agrees 

> to be installed into. If my memory serves correctly, the old grub
> (grub-legacy) could be installed, for example, into an extended
> partition, and control passed to it from a Windows bootloader which
> in
> turn was booted from the Windows MBR. This let me leave the MBR, with
> special features to access Windows recovery partitions, intact.

> With grub-pc, I never found a combination which worked this way. I
> have
> now developed a workaround for dual-boot systems, but I generally
> regard
> grub2 as too restrictive for implementing "creative" boot strategies.
> Maybe there are good reasons for it to work like this, I do not
> know...

> Thus my suggestion is to try to use the old grub instead.

Toomas, Thanks, can do that too. But I want to try grub2 first. don't give up so easy (I already gave up kde a while ago because there is still no stable 4 version ;-) 
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