"What does your grub.conf file look like? Have you tried to boot by hand?" what is the command for manually booting linux? again i'm new, so i probably wont completely understand half of what you say. it's kinda hard to view files from a linux install from windows. what do you mean by disc setup...boot priority? originally it was: 1. [CDROM] 2. [CDROM] 3. [Floppy] after this is an assumption 4. [HDD-0] 5. [HDD-1] should i change it to 1. [CDROM] 2. [HDD-1] 3. [HDD-0] then retry the install? -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=76403&topic_id=18843&forum=26#forumpost76403