GRUB won't load

hey, i'm having a problem with GRUB where when i reboot my computer, it goes through checking the cd-rom drives, says the word GRUB and then reboots. it all happens rather fast as it took me having it go through this process about 5 times to figure out what it said after it checked the rom drives. so i booted to the rescue disk and tried editing the grub.conf file and tried doing a grub-install but none of it worked. i got sick of trying and booted to an xp cd and tried fixmbr but that did nothing. so then when i rebooted, i still had my xp disk in the drive but when it says "press any key to boot from the cd..." or whatever, i didn't press a key - and it went straight to booting my xp install. i have no clue how / why / etc. but it did. so now i can't access my 2 other os's.
also, i was trying a few different things in grub trying to get all 3 os's to boot, and the last time i restarted it did the GRUB loop. lol
so any ideas on how to fix it? thanks

fixmbr "fixes" the MBR according to MS's opinion, and sets the MBR to boot whatever version of Windows is present.

It sounds to me that GRUB isn't finding a valid installation where indicated in the configuration file. Check your paths, partitions, and whatnot and re-install GRUB to the MBR.

yea, that is what fixmbr does. but i think i was "fixing" the mbr on the wrong hdd and i tried checking the paths & editing grub and i tried doing a grub-install etc. and nothing worked, so i went back to the recovery console and did a fixboot (which "fixes" the boot partition ) and it boots windows now. so i'm waiting til june 13 to download fc4 and i'm going to reinstall.

Did you install windows before or after you installed linux? I had this problem, sort of, because Windows had written over parts of the bootloader. From then on, I always installed linux last.

well i installed windows, then linux.. then another windows. but it didn't seem to affect the bootloader so i'm figuring it wrote a bootloader to the hdd it was on, which was the master hdd, and not the hdd linux / windows 1 was on. and i set up the bios to try to boot from my 2nd hdd so it just never tried the first. but then i had to figure out where the 2nd windows was located b/c fdisk came up with a bit of stuff and i was being stupid ^_^ but yea..i'm going to upgrade linux to FC4 in two days and HOPEFULLY that'll let me write a new boot loader..

I think you can reinstall it!:)

with uh....
b/c i think i said i tried that




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