darrylhadfield

I, too, saw Markymoo's instructions - and went down that path. Didn't work. Here's my desired end result: I want to be able to have a USB key that will boot to a multi-boot prompt with a custom splash screen. I'd have the option to boot to a simple DOS command prompt, and have data storage - on the first partition. I figure this is the 'smart' way of doing it, since Windows only sees the first partition. There'd be two other options, too - the second would be WinPE (or BartPE), with the Safeboot plugin - since corporately, my organization uses that and we've had issues with Safeboot corrupting. The third option from the bootloader menu would be a persistent-storage linux distro, likely Fedora. I figure on a 4gb stick, I can get 2gb for data storage, half a gig for WinPE, and the balance for the persistent Linux. I'd like to be able to add more partitions, too, down the road.. I want to understand this process, not just be spoon-fed. I couldn't get SPFdisk working - I ended up getting the latest gParted, to partition the USB stick. That was a little tricky (I'm building this using my 'work' notebook, and an old Dell Dimension 2400 tower system for testing that gParted didn't want to load nicely on at first), but I've got that running now. Based on my reading this evening, FAT16 isn't really necessary - I should be able to get away with FAT32. I used gParted to make the three partitions FAT32, used a Win98 bootable CD to format the first partition, and then used WinGrub to build a menu with three items - "Data", "WinPE", and "Linux". My MENU.LST looks like: timeout 30 title Data root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title WinPE root (hd0,1) title Linux root (hd0,2) Right now, my issue is that I can't get the grub loader working. When I boot, I get: Try (hd0,0): extended or non-MS: skip Try (hd0,1): FAT32: No GRLDR Try (hd0,2): FAT32: No GRLDR Where am I going wrong? D.