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

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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.