Further to my previous post (GRUB, SATA etc) my D875PBZ-based box is hanging on boot. I have: 1 PATA drive (pri master), 1 DVD (sec master) and 2 SATA drives. I am booting off the first SATA drive (SATA0). It gets to runlevel 5 and starts various things (lots of green done messages) but then stops. The last two lines on screen are: Starting hardware scan on bootStarting CRON daemon done Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done I tried booting with the failsafe args(no dma, apm, acpi, smp, apic etc) but that hung earlier in the boot. The last line is: hde: attached ide-disk driver. I don't see anything wrong in the log before that. Does anybody have any suggestions what may be wrong or where to look for more diagnostics? This is the same m/b that 'root' says works fine (and indeed my box works under SuSE 8.2 with an earlier Mantel .21 kernel) Cheers, Dave