Jerome Kan wrote: > It says the disk is not bootable and then trys to boot from an nvidia chip > on the motherboard following that is prompts me to reboot my computer. May I suggest you post (a) the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" (as root), (b) the contents of /etc/fstab and (c) the contents of /etc/grub.conf . None of these should be very long. -- 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