Responding to my own post. I used a SuSe liveEval cd I got in a magazine to install yesterday. The "Boot failure" error I was getting was because suse needed the CD to be in the drive to boot. I assume it wrote to the MBR or something so that when I installed Mandrake, I was still getting the same "Boot failure" error. What a crock. How is it that a suse install could keep control of the boot after I repartitioned and installed Mandrake? TOm _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list