This is a problem i've been having to do with my x windows. Basically i've got an optiplex260 with on board graphics. I've harassed the newsgroup at my university and i don't know what to do next tro get suse running(8.0).Maybe something to do with my partitioning? I've done some investigating and have found that my computer video controllers and the sound, video and game controllers are on-board video = Intel 845G PCI Accelerated SVGA , sound sound, video and game = Intel Pro 1000 MT Network I have problems getting the floppy working so am unable to post the log files.However upon looking at it thoroughly i found in the boot.log file : <3> Unknown bridge resource 2 :assuming transparent PCI-IDE :unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00devicef9 VID=8086 DID24cb PCI: Device 00:1f .1 not available because of resource collisions PCI_IDE: (ide _setup_pci_device:)could not enable device. This seems to me to be the problem. However in investigating ways of accessing my log files I came acoss an interesting program called ltools which allows you to access linux filesystems on your windows pc or vice-versa. It checked my partitions on my computer which are as follows: /dev/hda1 :de 31MB from CHS /dev/hda2: NTFS/HPFS 43182MB /dev/hda3: Win ExPar 33126MB /dev/hda5:Linux Swap2047MB /dev/hda6:Linux EXT2 31078MB It told me that I have 'Bad Magic Number in superblock. Not Linux. Error loading superblock. This got me thinking, is my partioning incorrect? I used the partition magic 7 wizard to set up a linux partition booting from lilo.