> I BELIEVE MY ONLY CHOICE IS TO DO A FDISK/MBR. Does anybody see an > alternative? I've tried everything else I can think of.
I'm not sure exactly what your problem is. If you can get the thing you were running that does funny business to put back a normal partition table, and then install grub in the MBR, you should be fine. > )does grub support booting FAT32 or should I be sure to use only FAT16? Last I knew it supports only FAT16, not FAT32. > )can I boot more than one FAT partition(two PRI DOS FAT16, one PRI DOS > FAT32 each partition supports an OS) with my menu.lst? The two FAT16s > are just small boot partitions to the second harddrive. Sure. From the grub command line (or menu.lst settings), you can access any partition. > )should I keep my hurd and debian boot partitions below cylinder 1024? This was necessary with earlier versions of GRUB, but I believe that it no longer matters. To put /boot/grub/stage2 past cylinder 1024, you might need to use the new stage1_lba as your stage1. But I believe that GRUB's stage2 (which reads everything else but stage1 and stage2) can now access large disks without restriction.
