I don't know if this is a "newbie" question or an "expert" question, so I'm asking in both... I'm hoping someone here can give me a suggestion -- I can ONLY boot off my floppy that I made at install. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (have not upgraded from what is on the CD yet.) My system hardware is as follows: Dual-PPro 200 mhz on a Micronics W6-LI motherboard 192 Megs RAM S3 Virge GX (Aopen PT75 Plus II) video card w/ 4 megs RAM Advansys ABP940-UA Ultra SCSI Hard drives: 1 x 850 meg Conner/Seagate, 1 X 10.5 GIG (only formatted out to 8.5 GIG for some reason) Seagate (full-height 5.25") SCSI drive. USR "Big Picture" Video Phone capture card (PCI) The problem is as follows: If I take my boot floppy out of the drive, it just sits there at boot with a blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. However, if I put the floppy IN the drive, it boots off the floppy VERY slowly -- I can watch each separate letter of "LILO" be typed. This doesn't seem right.... any suggestions?