drewk1

Thanks all for the input but I have now given up with Mandriva as I was spending far too much time with no success. I have now installed Ubuntu which worked first time. Thanks again all those who took the time to reply to my plea for help

failsafe gives me this: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/279534...10843d2.jpg?v=0 Apologies for the dodgy screenshot

As requested: Disk /dev/sda: 150.0 GB, 150039945216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18241 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xbe0099b2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 18242 146521088 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x90324935 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 1020 14593 109033155 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 1020 1528 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb6 1529 14593 104944581 83 Linux timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd1,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bhbafcde5 splash=silent acpi=ht vga=788 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bhbafcde5 acpi=ht initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00 failsafe initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 -----------------------------------

Reinstalled and put Grub on the mbr of the default hd Get grub menu now when booting but still failing with a whole host of errors when pressing Esc the last line being "booting has failed" Is there anyway to capture these error messages as they scroll off the screen so quickly!

I am trying to install Mandriva Linux One 2008 Spring on my second hard drive. All goes well until I reboot and it goes straight into Vista, if I choose the second drive from the Bios boot menu I can get a graphical grub boot screen but if I select the Linux option it hangs. Vista boots fine from this screen. Any help would be appreciated.