. Thanks to all for the suggestions below. ------------------ I originally wrote:I just installed kubuntu from the live CD on an ibm t40 with xp (no install/rescue xp cd) and now have a grub error 16 so can't boot anything. I've searched the net, but have not found a way to restore mbr and salvage what is on the hd. Can't find a way to restore mbr on my knoppix cd. how can I fix this problem?Vic <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:Boot from a Linux Live CD to repair your grub setup. Boot from *any* Windows disk in rescue mode to fix the mbr,Next Vic sent this link: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html Wayne Davis wroteThere is a Boot disc out there called: Super Grub Loader It has saved my bacon several times. Do a google for it. It's a small .ISO you burn to a CD. OR, if you are near me 15av/Bell, I'll give you one. :-)----------------- I also found the same linuxhelp.blogspot page that Vic suggested, and have been trying some of the remedies suggested on that page, but no success yet. I'm beginning to think that the kubuntu install may have created a problem as fdisk -l displays partitions that do not seem proper, i.e. "partition 2 does not end on a cylinder boundary" Same message for partition 3. Also, when I view the partitions with qparted via Knoppix, it appears that there is only one single partition and not multiple partitions. I'll download that "Super Grub Loader" to see what it might do. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss