Excellent!  Thanks Bill and Derek helped early this morning also and who 
ever else jumped on it.

Alan

At 02:35 PM 7/17/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Problem solved.  Basically stemmed from a bad boot sector... the Linuxcare
>rescue disk was a lifesaver.
>
>    http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl
>
>It was good to have a spare hard disk around... also points out the
>importance of having a separate partition for '/' so you can back just
>*that* up without having to back up your entire /home directory when you
>have to fiddle with this sort of thing.
>
>Bottom line, there are happy souls out there today because of the folks
>here on the PLUG list.  Cheers!
>
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