> I have had this exact problem! In my case, it was the IDE zip drive that > was causing the problem. You need to change the BIOS to "none" instead of > "autodetect". I would agree with the other respondents as well, be sure > your jumpers are set right (esp. that you have master or single set > correctly.). If you have any removable media on your IDE channels such as > the already mentioned zip drive, change the BIOS settings. Let us know how > it goes! I am not really sure what the problem was. It appeared to have been in the BIOS though. After screwing up the system trying to get it working I had to reinstall. I lost some data in the process. After formatting and reinstalling, I was left with the exact same problem. I didn't have a ZIP in the system either. Just the two new drives on the ATA/100 card, and one HDD on the primary IDE, and one CD-ROM on the secondary IDE. After an hour of messing with the BIOS the dang thing started working. I think the trick was messing with the boot order of my devices. It was set to the following: 1 - Removeables 2 - CR-ROM 3 - HDD 4 - Network That is the order I had both before and after I had the problems. The BIOS let me 'enter' the HDD entry and under that there were two options. The first said something like 'ISA/PCI cards' and the second was hard drives. I swapped the order and the system booted up with GRUB. I didn't even know that those options existed. You are the first person I have come across to have a similar problem. Good luck,