SuSE 7.1 on an AMD Duron. Because I have been having problems setting an nVidia card up properly, I decided to install a minimal file tree on another partition to be sure that the video card problems weren't due to some left-over old libraries, etc. Things went smoothly, until I had to reboot the system, after the installation of the files, to finish the installation. LILO, on the 3.5in floppy works and starts to boot the system in the normal fashion until the step immediatly following creating /var/log/boot,msg at which point the boot hangs and the only way to recover is to reboot the system. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem