Mark A. Beaumont wrote: > The machine is new. The disk was initially clean (no other OS installed) > and in the installation procedure I chose to wipe all partitions. I > followed all the defaults during formatting and installation. I don't > want a dual boot system. Everything seemed to install smoothly with no > warning messages. But it will not boot. > > Any ideas gratefully received. Did you try the Fedora Rescue CD? Or you could try Knoppix. In either case you could look at /etc/grub.conf and see if this is correct. If it is you could try re-installing with "grub-install --recheck/dev/hda" (or whatever your hard disk is called). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland