The first time I installed it, thought it wouldnt boot because I opted
not to install LILO, so since i had a shitload of time on my hands and
I was watching TV i just decided to reinstall the whole thing again
instead of poking around and trying to find the problem, again it wont
boot from the hard drive only this time I also installed LILO, and both
times I made sure that hda1 was flagged boot in fdisk. I have 2 hard
drives for this computer that I swap, one of them is a 120gb HD with XP
on it, when I switch that one back in everything contines as normal
(well if you call windoze normal ;-) ) and the other is a 20GB that I
had in my xbox but now that I found a 40gig for that I can use it to
brushen up on my linux. I have installed many many times slackware
8.1, debian, and even gentoo (whew that was fun haha) on this same
syayem with this same 20GB HD. Anyway Im sure I overlooked something
here, im just trying to think if I gave you guys all the info... ohh
yeah only other thing is i checked the bios and everything was normal,
but you already knew that because i said that the xp HD was booting
fine.

TIA for any help, if this is the wrong group to post to for help,
please politely point me in the right direction, thank you.

-Lou