I have tried to locate /home. I fixed the gnome problem of assigning permissions of 0700 to /home/mike but the boot still fails as long as fstab has the entry /dev/hda14 /home ext2 defaults 0 0. How do I fix this?? mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail