On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:38:32PM +0100, Rene Olsen wrote: -> I am sorry if I was not quite clear on that point. The floppy drive works just great in DOS -> and WIN98. And as I wrote I can also use the boot floppy that came with SuSE 7.3 to -> boot the system. Sorry, I guess I misread that. I thought you could NOT use the boot floppy. -> problem at all. I then enter "linux disableapic" at the boot: prompt, or the system will -> simply freeze as soon as it gets to something with APIC during the boot proccess. Yeah, I had to put "append=disableapic" at the top section of my /etc/lilo.conf so that is always in effect when I boot. The P4T-E doesn't seem to like apic very much. -> After loading the kernel from the floppy there comes a lot of messages from the kernel -> about what hardware it has found. And it is here that things go wrong. It says: -> -> floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB -> floppy0:no floppy controller found What happens if, after booting, you do "lsmod"? Does it show the floppy module as being inserted? If not, try "modprobe floppy". Michael -- "# chmod a+x /bin/laden" Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA