-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I did the reload of Win2K, and getting Linux back was nothing short of a nightmare. As expected, Win2K destroyed the ability to get to SuSE. The real blame for what happens belongs to Microsoft, as they don't know how to play nicely with other systems. There's a bit of blame to go around, though. As expected, the floppy boot disk is useless for getting back to SuSE. It goes to the MBR, which pointed only to Windows. OK, let's go to the boot DVD. I got to the "Boot Installed System" prompt, told it to go. At this point, I got the error message that it couldn't boot all the partitions, look at /var/log/YaST2/y2log for details. Of course, at this point in the process, it's not possible to get to a console to look at the log so as to try to fix it. The only way I got Linux back was to do a new installation, telling Yast that it could only format my /boot partition and not to load anything else. All in all, that's not a bad option as my other partitions / directories were left untouched. It would be kinda nice to have an option on the CD to restore MBR and Grub without doing anything else. Total time to reload Windows with all software: 3 hours. Total time to get Linux running again after this: 4.5 hours. There's gotta be a better way. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kvpejeziQOokQnARAsRXAJ49rpppKZqzTX9g6rNviVd1mM3oNACbBi28 WxoM8tZ9H73az2GvbPowqC0= =IcOj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----