Mike Miller cried from the depths of the abyss... > > Ah, ha, ha -- I figured it out. The tech at Gen Nano had left the Nvidia > RAID (fakeRAID?) enabled, and that was screwing it up. With RAID disabled, > it sees grub and it boots. After that it does not go to Gnome -- it just > goes to a console text prompt. Any idea why I don't get gnome? > These nvidia boards usually have 3 optins: RAID, ACHI, IDE/SATA Play it safe, and use the native IDE/SATA setting. This will not require additional drivers (as with Fake RAID & ACHI)