problems loading - Grub and no further

[Caitilin]

Hi everyone

I had: windows xp on a 160 gb hd.
I got: 40 gb hdd and enclosure
I installed: Fedora 7

Yesterday evening everything worked beautifully bar wireless, which I can deal without. I closed it down properly.

Today I go to turn it on, the enclosure is on as well and it reads
"Grub" and a blinking cursor.

I can't get it to load from the external (with fedora), the internal hdd or the cd drive (with the dvd in it). In short, all I can do is watch the screen that is black and says 'grub' with a blinking cursor.

What do I do now?

Cait

[whych]

Use the fedora install disk or the cd for any live distro and choose the repair option to fix the bootloader entries.
Have a search for grub and boot.

[devils casper]

Boot up from Fedora installation CD/DVD and select Recover/Rescue option in startup menu.
Execute this at shell prompt :

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
exit
exit

[Caitilin]

That was my first thought, but I can't get it to boot from the internal hdd, the external hdd or the cd/dvd.

Is there some trick to this I don't get? CD drive is listed first as the load options in the bios, external hdd second and internal hdd third. That should mean it goes straight to dvd/cd right?

What am i missing?

[devils casper]

Have you tried Bootable CD/DVD of any other Linux or Windows OS?