Hi Jude, Just for completeness, I'm going to ask a stupid question. Did you make sure that all of the lines in linux.bat were rem'ed out except the one that contains root=/dev/hda1? I think there is an uncommented line that assumes a zip drive of some sort. It's definitely before the one with root=/dev/hda1. Incidentally the computer I had my problems on was also a Dell. Jim Wantz wb0tfk