Hi There I posted the message below to the list on Saturday. So far, I've had only one response which, unfortunatly, didn't take me forward in any meaningful way (thanks anyway Paul). I can't believe no one else knows the answer. Can sombody help me out... please? Lance __________________________________________________________ Hi Guys Finally got 7.1 installed on my new system - Athlon 700, 128MB, 13.6G HDD - Linux only, no Windows. It all seemed to be going smoothly until it came to the first re-boot. It reached the point where it says; Starting hard drive optimisation for hda [OK] then it goes no further. I left it in that state for over an hour and it never moved. I could hear what sounds like disk accessing at round one minute intervals but don't see any activity on the HDD light to confirm this. Any ideas where I go from here? How do I go about tracking down what the problem might be? I created a boot disk during the install and, I suppose, I could use this to start the system. But I have absolutely no Idea what I'm looking for! One more thing. This message is part of the Interactive Startup (or Setup - not sure). Is this anything like the setup on Windows where you can step through the entries in autoexec.bat and config.sys at boot-up, choosing which drivers etc are loaded? If so, how do I do it under Linux? Is there a troubleshooting HOWTO that covers this sort of thing? All help gratefully received. Regards Lance Dow
