On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > Ah, ha, ha -- I figured it out. The tech at Gen Nano had left the Nvidia > RAID (fakeRAID?) enabled, and that was screwing it up. Haha. Yeah, I guess it wasn't seeing boot devices at all. Oops (: > Any idea why I don't get gnome? Because you're a good person and true of heart, and the gods are rewarding you. Seriously though, I'm wondering if you had radically different video cards and somehow X got configured for what you had before. See if there's an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and if there is, rename it to something else. > Previously, holding down the shift key had no effect because it didn't get > that far. Now it boots, so maybe it doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, that shouldn't really matter... except you might see some errors when X tries to start. Then again you can just login on the console and type "startx" and see what it throws at you. -Yaron --