Francois Massonneau wrote: > Now, when I power on, after the disks checking by the Adaptec SCSI card, the > only message I have is "GRUB", and the system stays that way, with a > continuous noise. What sort of noise? Is it a beep, or something more ominous? Actually, any sound there is fairly ominous. I don't think GRUB does beep: the documentation (info grub or pinfo grub) suggests that it tries to print error messages if there's something wrong. I suspect that there's something pretty wrong with your hardware. Can you set your system to boot from floppy, USB, or CD-ROM? If so, can you try that? James. -- E-mail address: james | Dell decided to deck its workstation Itanics late last @westexe.demon.co.uk | year citing the compelling reason that it hadn't sold | any. | -- Mike Magee, The Inquirer, 9 January 2002.