Hello, I have been running for months Suse 10.1 on a pc without any problem. Yesterday, all of a sudden, it stopped working. What happens is that I arrive to the Grub screen where I can choose between Suse 10.1 and Suse/failsafe mode. If I select the first, or let the timeout expire, the screen goes black in about one second and nothing happens anymore. I have to press the reset button to restart. if I select the failsafe mode, it goes almost immediately to character mode and freezes after printing "Kernel panic" and something else which unfortunately I had no possibility to write down. If I boot the Knoppix 4.02 CD, it starts and works just fine, mounts my hard disk, my files are still there... everything OK. My _feeling_ is that the MBR and/or the /root partition were corrupted in some way. What I'd like to ask is: 1) how could it have happened (that is, excluding hw faults) 2) what else could it be 3) What is the most efficient way to fix it (it's been a long time since I had to do similar things, and I'd really appreciate some pointers to go in the right direction from the beginning, without false starts... with only Knoppix 5.01 CD (not dvd) and the suse install CDs without Net access :-( (I can just ask a friend to download and burn to CD other stuff for me until this is fixed...) The PC: Asus A8N-VM Motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800, 4GB RAM Any help is welcome!! TIA, Marco