Hi, My computer (AMD 1000Mhz, 40gb IDE drive) has recently been moved from the UK to germany, and on starting up I encountered several problems with my linux system. So I'm trying to track down the source of these (spontaneous - I'd made no changes or updates to the system for a few weeks before) problems. There's a lot I don't know about linux so some of this will be a little clumsy, but my problem fits none that I've been able to find so far. My first question is whether there are any searchable forums or other resource that are appropriate for this type of problem. A good few hours have been wasted on google and around the suse/kde sites looking for information, but without much success. First off, lilo works fine. If I boot windows me (which has 30gig of the disk) it works fine and nothing seems to be wrong. Then if I try to boot linux (suse 7.3 out of the 7.3 personal distribution and the last time I used the online update package tool with yast2 was maybe mid-June) it works fine and I reach the login screen. If I try to log in as either user 'henshaw' (me) or 'root' with kde then it gives me the basic suse background and after a few seconds, I get "Could not read network connection list /home/henshaw/DCOP_server_linux_:0 Please check 'dcopserver' program is running" before being returned to the login screen. If I try to login with 'failsafe', 'fvvm' or 'tvm' I'm returned straight back to the login screen. If I try to login with 'windowmaker' I do get somewhere, but if I try to launch any process (ie the xterm icon or anything from the suse application menu I can reach by right-clicking on a blank area of screen) then a message tells me that that process cannot be launched. Booting first from the suse intallation disk and then "..from an existing partition" works and gives the same result. Choosing the linux - safe settings option from LILO gives me stranger problems - the output as I'm loading: (STUFF) SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadaptor]: Root fs not found request_module[scsi_hostadaptor]: Root fs not found (MORE STUFF - 3-5 LINES) RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 Freeing initrd memory: 558k freed FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to write root fs on 03:07 (BLINKING CURSOR, NO RESPONSE TO INPUT) Exploring a little with the installation disk, I can see that all the packages that should be installed are, and that I have 3 linux partitions (as I expected) /hda5/ (no type) ~500mb - is the boot partition (I think) /hda6/ (swap) ~300mb - is swap /hda7/ (ext2) ~5gb - is my home directory (These sizes I set manually, as the installer wanted to use a lot more space but linux can read from a windows partition so I thought it only fair to give WinMe the bigger slice - that arrangement has worked hitch free for over a year) So what can i do to fix/further diagnose this problem. Ways to check the condition of the disk would be quite useful, and in particular the boot partition (LILO lives there, I think, but it should have a filesystem type shoulsn't it?) and to reach /home/henshaw/ so that I can try out something of the dcopserver problem. Any ideas? Oliver