hi ted; i am running redhat 9. here is what came out when i pico etc/grub/config #NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 initrd /initrd-version.img boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashingimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img does that make any sense or help? betty i