[pastorjim2]

Well I went out an bought a Partition magic so I could install SuSE on my XP box.<br>Went thru the installation and now I have a big black screen with "no os found" in the top corner. NOW WHAT? of course I have no recover cd as HP has that stuff on the hard drive and the rescue disks I made are totally worthless. Jim

[lynch]

This was after installing PM or SuSE?Have you tried to do a repair by booting from the PM CD?If it's ver 8 it's a bootable CD.If it's an earlier version, make the rescue floppies on another comp and use them.
Does the black screen appear after a successful POST or dont you even get that?
Sounds like a bootloader problem maybe but cant be sure.What exactly did you do ?What was your procedure?
lynch

[pastorjim2]

I fixed the problem THANKS TO LYNCH'S heads up about rebooting. It seems the partition was not properly mounted and I couldn't boot at all-even my BIOS was gone. Turned the box on and used F1 and voila I just had to make the XP partition active. Now to take a shower after sweating for 12 hours.