Le lun 22/03/2004 à 10:08, Alan Cox a écrit : > > Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead. > > > > Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during install" TM? > > Try unplugging the IDE disks see what it does. Some K6 BIOSes will choke > with large hard disks (>32G), and sometimes it matters whether there is > a partition table present or not . OK the disk is a 40Gb, the partition table is from an earlier wiped Redhat 7.2 install and the machine was booting from W98 (game machine for the kids) > You hang sounds a bit early for that however Yes it is - with HD unplugged even the boot floppy is not seen... Sounds like I need to try some guru magic with the MB... Like trashing it and getting a new MB. Thanks Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit