Is the F12 the option that puts you into the machines setup? Many manufacturers use this Compaq, Dell, Micron, and others. It's a partition from 10 - 30 megabytes that contains programs for configuration, hardware testing, remote administration, etc... Most machines can live without this but it's a good thing to have if you have a hardware problem. This is not exclusive to laptops. Compaq has long used it in Servers and Desktops. I remember this happening to someone else but it was a long time ago. The person let Red Hat do the automatic partitioning, it erased the setup partition. The only way "I" know how to fix it is to rebuild the whole thing. Some smarter LUGer may have a way to work around it. You will need to setup and diagnostics disks from the manufacturer. When you setup Red Hat you will need to manually partition the drive to be sure the setup partition remains on the disk. This should be a topic at an Install Fest. I can do a setup partition clinic on a Compaq if anyone is interested. Sam. David Schiff wrote: >For what its worth the DeadRat manuals state the reason they use a /boot >partition is so if you have file corruption on / you can still have pure >kernel to boot and fix things. > >I ha a Dell Inspiron 11. It had this really nice feature of a one time >boot option, you hit f12 at start up and you get a menu of boot options. >I installed Fedora core w/Grubb on mbr now not only wont this feature >work (which is not surprising) but Grubb kicks in before I can boot a cd >or dvd no matter what the bios boot order is set to. To boot from cd I >have to dissable boot from hd in bios. >Is there a HOWTO to create a boot from cd munu option ror Grubb like the >boot from floppy option on Mandrake's LILO setup? > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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