For starters, you'll definitely limit yours responses by sending HTML emails. Lots of people here just don't put up with that kind of thing. What did you add to your /etc/grub.conf file to get it to boot? Can you post your file here so we can "see" it. Try changing you harddrive BIOS setting to CHS or LBA. Need some more history, like was the harddisk freshly repartitioned when you installed? -eric wood ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Taylor > I'm curious...do you have to be in some special club to get your email posts answered. I have submitted a post several times about power management and have not got one answer. Getting the system to boot I would have thought was straight forward for the non-newbies and is clearly quite a critical problem. My problem arose from a standard install and resulted in my system not booting further than: INIT: 2.84 booting... I have found a line to add to /etc/grub.conf which got me booting, but now it won't power down completely. Please...Linux didn't get where it is today by people avoiding each other -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list