"Xmp nix" <xmpnix@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031119052935.00847.00000620@mb-m28.aol.com...
> One thing I noticed about SuSE was that it set windows partition to
active.
> Since GRUB was written to root part, not MBR, it would always boot into
Windows
> thereafter with no option for linux.
>
> I'd check that grub.conf and post it here.

This sort of fun is why most of us put the MBR at the beginning of the boot
disk, rather than in the root partition or similar locations.