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Hi- I just recently installed Suse 7.1 Pro onto a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. The install went fine(in text mode), and the initial screen with TUx on it and the kernel selection list is there: linux, linux_2.4, suse, memtest86. Right now, I'm hitting ESC to boot into text mode as I haven't configured X yet. If I choose any of the 3 kernels listed: linux, linux_2.4 or suse, it goes through the normal startup procedures hw swap fsck mounts timezone syslog boot log pcmcia "all report back with green 'done'". Then : A big fat blank screen! I can hear the harddrive spin up and it blinks on occasion, but all I get is a blinking '_' in the upper left hand corner. No response from the keyboard, and no output is displayed. The BIOS setting are set to the defaults and there are no PCMCIA cards in the system. Crtl-Atl-Del does nothing to the system either. Oh, I can boot off of the floppy and load the rescue system, mount the filesystems(of my installed system), those look OK, lilo.conf looks OK. The 3 kernels are all the same size, sorry, didn't do a 'sum' to verify, the associated initrd's are different sizes, but again, any choice made produces the same result. Any thoughts? Besides: a different computer, newer OS(I have the 7.1 disks and I don't need much on these systems) ;-)) thanks in advace, brian -- Brian Jackson Photography Action Athletics http://www.brianjacksonphoto.com "Excellence in Sports Imagery" 650-218-5082 http://www.actionathletics.com