Hello: This morning when I went to log onto my machine, which had been running the setiathome client overnight, I found it completely frozen. Not even the caps lock key or Ctrl-Alt-Del would work so I had to push the reset button. I did that but the machine won't boot up now. The boot process hangs at "Starting lpd" When I try to boot from the hard drive "Starting lpd" fails; when I try to boot from a floppy "Starting lpd" shows "done", but the boot process still hangs there. I'd swear I tested my rescue floppy before I needed it but when I try to boot from it the process hangs after I see "Searching for boot record from floppy... OK" All hard drive partitions are formated with the reiserfs so the the SuSE rescue system on the floppy/dvd (ext2) doesn't help (at least with my limited knowledge). The only boot messages that look different from what I usually see are after the file systems are mounted: Starting syslog services syslogd: /var/log/warn: Permission denied syslogd: /var/log/warn: Permission denied followed by: Starting lpd, which either shows "done" or "failed" depending on whether I'm booting from the harddrive or a floppy. I might add that networking and dhcp seem to be working OK, the machine gets its IP address from my Linksys router. Can anybody out there tell me what I might try next to reclaim my system. The machine is an Athlon 700 mhz, 384mb of ram, with 2 15mb eide hard drives. Hda has a ntfs partition with Win2K and a vfat partition. Hdb has two reiserfs partitions, hdb1 mounts at root with SuSE 7.1, kernel 2.4.2, hdb2 mounts at /home. I dual boot using the Win2K boot manager. I was going to upgrade to SuSE 7.2 and reclaim the Win2K partition today, but right now I'm glad to have some way to get the machine running and ask for help. (Today is the first time in three months I've had to boot into Win2K.) Any help will be welcomed. George -- George H. Griffin "Always believe your observations, NOT your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict." John Gribbin