I just setup grub to use chainloading (to get around the unsupported ufs2), so now it boots.. however, when booting, it hangs at: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2153331273 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec It also did this when trying to boot via the 5.2.1 install CD, which was circumvented by booting via floppy... any ideas? Thanks, Aaron