[conspire] Booting mutiple distro's

[John Andrews]

I have
Hda-Windows
Hdb1-Pclinuxos
Hdb3-Mepis6.5

It took me severals days to get the grub menu written right. The 2 Linux could 
boot from grub floppy. But  the Windows never booted since I erased the 
original Hdb set-up.Now the grub menu looks right and starts the different 
distro's correctly except (Windows), but it wont finish booting Hdb1 because 
it doesn't like the scanning of Hdb3 when it trys to boot up and quits.
	I scanned Hdb3 from a live cd. Hdb3 is unmounted , telinit 1 run level ,and 
it says that  Hdb3  is "clean". Also Hdb1 is "clean". Why won't Pclinux boot 
right. I did hard crash Hdb3 (i think) at least once.
  I also have a question about the boot flag when you partition using Gparted. 
Hda1 is flagged boot and Hdb1is too. Is that right? Also I flagged Hdb3 when 
I created it. That switched the flag off of Hdb1. So I removed it from Hdb3 
and put it back on Hdb1. Maybe that corrupted Hdb3 but why would 
e2fsck -c /dev/hdb3  say "clean".  What about windows not booting? I don't 
understand the whole mbr/grub thing with the hda drive.