>5.1 western digital caviar >It has an option for LBA (normal or large) set to normal > >first partition= NTFS 2 gig >second= fat 16 1.7 gig >third= ext2 1.1 gig >fourth= swap 100 meg Aha! You can't boot an OS from an IDE drive from any sector beyond 540Mb, which is obviously where you Linux Kernel image lives. Try changing your LBA setting to large (Or upgrade to SCSI ;})