Hi all, Just wanted to ask you all what I should have done better on this one! Here is what happened. First, I run a dual boot system. sda1 and sda2 are my windows C and D drives, and then I have a swap drive, followed by my 2 suse configured ext3 (I think) drives. My grub boot loader has my computer going to boot up in suse linux first, then the failsafe, then "windows 1" (my C drive, or sda1), then "windows 2" (my D drive, or sda2), and then finally the CD. Well, I just wanted to change the order and put the windows up at the top of the list so that it would boot to that first. I did not see at the time the button that says "set as default", which I suppose I should have seen. I went to the boot loader configuration in YaST, I clicked on "windows 1", and then I clicked on "move up" until it got to the top of the list. Then I shut my computer down to reboot, because I had some work in Windows to do, and I have not yet installed the virtual machine. After the initial Dell splash screen, instead of going to the grub loader like it usually does, it just had a cursor flashing in the upper left corner of the screen. It remained there while I waited. And waited. And waited. I finally figured out it wasn't going to do anything, so I tried shutting down all the way and powering up again. It did the same thing again. So I thought, I will just use the "repair" option and boot from the disk. I tried this, and it checked the configuration and found errors in the boot loader. It said it did a repair and reset the grub configuration (or something like that) and fixed the problem. At the end of the procedure, after clicking "finish" it said there was an error in the configuration, so I ran it again. One thing interesting - when it repaired the boot loader configuration, it did not detect my windows drives. The second time seemed to allow me to shut down and reboot without giving an error. It didn't matter - the computer would not boot to the grub loader. It did the same as before, with the flashing cursor in the upper left of the screen. I could not type anything on that cursor - my computer was simply suspended. Now I suppose I could have used the "rescue system" option, but the problem is I am too new at linux to know what to do at a command line prompt. Since I could not even get into windows, I could not access the internet and send out an email and ask for advice, and so I was left with no choice. I did not know what to do. The repair system did not work. I don't know how to use the rescue system option. I don't have any books on linux - all my documents are on line. I had no access to my computer. I knew my hard drive was intact - just the loader section was the problem, but I had no idea how to fix it. So I simply did a completely new installation of Linux in order to fix the boot loader. It seems like overkill, but given my situation and the fact that I couldn't wait (and none of my linux data or applications are critical to my work, while most of my windows data and applications are), so I re-installed Linux. So here are my questions - 1 - Why did moving the order in the boot loader configuration destroy my ability to boot my computer? 2 - If I click "set as default" in the boot loader configuration in YaST (to make windows my default until I get everything swiched over) and then re-boot, will my computer shut down again like it did before? 3 - If something like this happens again, how do I repair the grub loader without having to totally reinstall linux? 4 - why didn't the repair configuration work? I am writing this email from my windows partition because I haven't had time to go plug in the ethernet cable in order to download the driver for my wireless card (since those are not included in the distribution) so that I can email from my linux partition. Any help would be appreciated and answers to these questions! Thanks in advance George Olson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org