Gene Heskett wrote: > Would you believe that both hda and hdb have a star in the boot column > when fdisk is handed a p? No? But they do... I would assume that > the way back to sanity would be an 'fdisk -mbr /dev/hdb'? Doesn't sound to me as though that would help. In any case, what do you mean by saying that hda and hdb have stars in the boot column? Should that be hda1 and hdb1? In any case, you can turn this off with fdisk. (Try "m for Help" in fdisk.) -- 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