>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Freeman <kfreem02@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Kevin> Since you were able to mount the partitions when the drive Kevin> was installed in the other PC, I thought corruption would Kevin> be unlikely. It seems it was just fstab. I booted with Tomsrtbt, edited grub.conf, and re-booted. This time, using grub floppy, I got a menu. Booting procedeed further, but was unable to mount / as /etc/fstab had it listed for /dev/hdd5. I edited that, and re-booted again - this time everything works (booting from a grub floppy). Booting from the hard disk though still fails with a Hard Disk Error. So now I think I need to re-install grub on the hard disk. This is /dev/hda, so I suspect that I can get this done by booting the system again via the grub floppy, and then simply typing grub-install /dev/hda But as I am in no hurry, I thought I'd check with you first. The root partition is /dev/hda5. -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire