First thanks to all who took the time to respond.
Second I have the box working but I still have no idea what the real problem
is.
To get the box working I reinstalled the 3rd hard drive; putting the two
normally in the box on a shelf.
Then I installed Linux on the third HD from the CD-Reader an
Chuck -- You are trying to write the bootloader itself to a partition, You
should at least try writing it to the Master Boot Record to see if that
fixes your problem. To do that, you change the line that reads
boot = /dev/hda1
to read
boot = /dev/hda
Second, you are not *ex
