You should post this on debian-users, not debian-mentors. There is a chance that your swapdevice is set to the same device as your root filesystem by mistake. Try to use the rescue disk to check the file /etc/fstabs to see if both a filesystem and swap area trying to go on one partition. John John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre