Hi,

Mike; I'm glad you found teh solution to your problem.

My PC behaves the same way, and a new knoppix CD did not help...

In addition; on hd I have multiple boot options:

booting w2k: it stalls at approx 3/4 of the progress bar, switching on /sos in boot.ini only displays ammount of memory.

booting redhat: it stalls when the X-server grid comes up.

knoppix: level2 and level3 are ok, but if I start the X-server it hangs. In textmode I can mount the hard drives, so at least I can see that the I expect to be there are there, altough I can't really tell since I'm no computer wizard...

A hint anyone? I'm getting depserate after having tried to troubleshoot a few weeks now.

later...
/F