Jude, One possibility for your failure is the setting of the active flag on the proper partition. Be sure the partition holding your boot directory has the active flag set. I got hit with that one once, but have since installed arch with no difficulty half a dozen times or more. Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (62% of Full) My audio web site: www.edway.ftml.net My audio editor weblog: edway.wordpress.com -------- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928