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I am using an old IBM 20 gB Deathstar HD just for installation practice. The drive previously held an install of Xandros 2.0 dating back from days of ineptitude.
I complete all of the Arch 0.6 installation steps, selecting automatically layout and partition the drive, selecting only base package install and installing grub.
Yet, when I reboot, it still says "Xandros" as a welcome screen, but, of course, Xandros Distro is gone (good!) and Arch doesn't seem to exist.
This problem must be related to the MBR. Aside from the kludge of using a disk utility to overwrite the drive with zeros, or using Win98 boot disk to fdisk /mbr, How can I fix this problem?

Verlager,
Sounds to me as though we're getting closer.
Help me with something, kindly. You list /root (boot) as one of your partitions. Aren't you simply trying to tell us that hda1 is your / partition and that you're planning to boot Arch from it? If so, in principle your arrangements are fine as far as I can tell. But clarify that point for us, might you? Additionally, I think we all might benefit from a look at your /boot/grub/menu.lst and your letting us know where you are installing grub, MBR or /.
jlowell

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