Postie: THANK YOU! I have my sister's tiny little sony vaio pcg sr-17k, the 2.98lb'r with the external CD-rom. Anyway, windows basically commited suicide, and booting linux was my only hope of saving her data before I reformat. Your cheatcode DOES WORK for sony laptopsl the one odd thing I encountered was that halfway through booting it asked for a password, 20 characters long. I said 'no' and it continued to boot. Now if I can get my jumpdrive to work I'll be all set.

- Ca$h