I've just installed (several times) 9.1 Personal to a circa 1998 P450 box like this: - IBM 18gb scsi drive on an adaptec 2940, int13 extensions are ON - no IDE drives except the CDROM - floppy - 384mb - latest available bios (not very ;-), probably in Intel board with BX chipset I made a bootable Suse CD, boot, then run the installer, giving it an ftp source for the 9.1 distribution. Install goes well except yast wants only a / and a swap partition. I partition like this: - sda1 /boot 100mb primary - sda2 extended - sda5 swap 768mb - sda6 / everything else The machine boots as far is "GRUB" in the upper left of the screen, usually with the floppy's light stuck on. Then it sits, flashing its cursor at me and accepting no keyboard input. I can boot to the CD Rom's "system recovery." I can mount /boot which seems ok to me. Fdisk -l shows me about what I expect to see from the partition table (except "W95" is in the extended partition's description, I think). I start grub, giving it the commands "root (hd0,0)" then "setup." It seems happy. I then tell it "kernel /boot/vmlinuz" then boot which does change my command prompt but I'm not sure what to expect there. Reboot gives no love--same problem with GRUB flashing a cursor at me, with no grub menu. I commented out the floppy in menu.lst and even turned off the floppy in the bios. No better. I believe I've started from scratch a couple times. I'd welcome your analyses and advice. I don't suppose there's a 9.2 personal to work with? ;-)