Thank's all for your concern: Chris Spencer, Civileme, Rune Kallhovd and others which names I've lost. This seems to have been the problem: I noticed one thing different in the Mandrake fstab file (I can access the LM files from SuSE) compared to the SuSE fstab, in Drake I read: /dev/hda8 / ext2 noauto,user,rw 1 1 which looked a bit weird to me, in SuSE it's: /dev/hda5 / ext2�������� defaults 1 1 I changed the file in LM and tryed to boot; VOILA! all of a sudden it worked! Now the question is: if this was the entire problem, how come a fresh Mandrake 7.2 install is configures itself in that way? 'noauto,user,rw' for the root partition in fsab is totally illogical, no wonder the whole system flips out on people when this happens. I am evaluating the Mandrake 7.2 dist to eventually use it as education material in a course for Linux newbies, where I will teach them to install and configure a Linux OS. So, if this is an isolated problem only on 'some' of the CD's distributed and not all, I would like to know. Rune; if you haven't got another Linux installed then perhaps you should consider installing one to be able to access your Mandrake and check the fstab file. I always have one Linux in shape when testing another one..:-) Greetings to you all, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
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