Unable to boot my system totally - please help!

[Harry Putnam]

"Paul F. Johnson" <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> writes:

> I doubt the MBR is shafted as the machine is booting to grub, though
> I have noticed that /dev/hda1 does have a very old version of the
> system files in it, which makes me wonder if something is getting a
> wee bit confused.

What do you mean by system files?

You mentioned having /boot on /dev/hda2
Do you have a /boot directory on both /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2

If so, that may be the source of your trouble.