Okay, I finally found the problem in bios that kept me from booting from the cdrom. I had a netinst cd that I used and created a shell and mounted my system and chromed into it. I used aptitude to remove grub and install grub-legacy. But now I can't figure out how to install grub on the system. I've gotten nowhere with grub-install as I can't seem to get a device name to work. How do I proceed from here? Tia. -- Cheryl "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." (Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV)