I finally was able to reboot. Grub came up with "Gentoo Linux 2.4.22" I pressed "enter" the machine restarts and Grub comes up again. hda1 is /boot hda2 is /swap hda3 is (compaq setup) hda4 is / Grub has root (hd0,0) kernel (hda0,0)/kernel-2.4.22 root=/dev/hda vga=788 BUT, I made a mistake "root=/dev/hda3" should be root=/dev/hda4 I did "e" to edit and changed the "3" to a "4" I did a "b" to boot it does the same thing. I did "a" to edit and changed the "3" to a "4" I did a "b" to boot it does the same thing. I've changed everything I could think of to get this to boot but it will not get past Grub First this has taken all weekend to build I've followed the instructions to the letter. Second if I didn't know about something I asked "before" I continued. Third I'm a bit frazzled now... Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list