[BrianS]

First here are my specs

ECS K7VZM MoBoard (not sure of model no.)
AMD K7 Athlon 900mhz
128MB PC-100 RAM
40gig Western Digital HD (BIOS reads as WDC WD400bb-00AUA1)
D-Link ethernet/LAN card (unsure of model no.)
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI Video Card
onboard Legacy sound

I have the drive partitioned as follows:
C:\2.45 gigs (Windows 98SE only)
Linux (15 gigs)
Linux swap (250MB)
D:\22 gigs(Windows software/game ext.)

The install goes perfectly (both mandrake and redhat) but when I am prompted to reboot LILO offers the different boot options. If I choose windows is starts up as normal -no problem but if I choose Linux I get a black screen that says "Loading Linux.........." in plain text at the top right hand corner and then nothing at all (no disc activity of any kind). This happens with BOTH redhat and mandrake and I cant make heads of tails of it. Anyone have a similar problem or a solution?

BTW Mandrake is v. 8.2 and redhat is v.7