David Relson wrote: > I want GRUB to boot from hda1. However it insists on booting from > hda5. > > 3 - Upon booting, used grub's command line to execute > root (hd0,4) > makeactive Yes, the (hd0,4) is saying to use partition 5 on hda. Try changing that to (hd0,0) and it should boot from the first partition on hda. c