Here's my problem: I had a problem after installing and using mldonkey for a couple of hours: for some unknown reason, the Mldonkey deamon refused to die, whatever I tried. And this deamon was according to ksysguard responsible for use of some 25% of system resources, visible in the fact that my hdb was constantly thrashing (reiserfs). I had no other option that to reboot, but after restarting, the box hung with the message: GRUB: geometry error on hdb (where my / partition is) I rebooted with the bootdisk, loaded the reiserfs module, and chose system rescue, which allowed me to have a working system. Using yast /bootloader configuration, I rewrote the grub config, and rebooted: no problem at all. This morning there was a power cut, and when I came home, the computer had restarted and had stopped with the same grub geometry error message. here's the log of the messages when I reboot on the rescue disk and try to boot the installed linux: <6> hdb:<4>hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <4>hdb: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting <4>hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4> <6>hda: DMA disabled <3>hdb: drive not ready for command <4>ide0: reset: success <4>hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x40 <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <4>hdb: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting <4>hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4> <3>hdb: drive not ready for command <4>ide0: reset: success <4> hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb2 What is the matter? Is my HD dying? fx -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org