Installing Linux

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Yesterday I tried all day to install Linux. I tried Mandrake and Fedora. Everytime I'd get the message Grub Geom error or Grub Hard Drive error .
Is it because I installed it onto an sata hd. I had winxp pro installed onto a separate hd.

 

[Nothinman]

It's possible but I don't think so, SATA is supported by Linux and grub should work as long as BIOS access works. I would guess that the geometry Linux reported in it's driver is different than the BIOS has and that confuses grub since it gets installed in Linux.