Ok, thanks, that's what I figured. I just wanted to ask the expert's opinion. No biggie. I'm gonna install the x-mas edition and see how that fares on hardware.

The text was just the normal stuff, detecting bios, etc.

Thanks for the RAM tip, I'll remember that.

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... what exactly it is showing you there when the boot process gets stuck.

Usually, looking at your symptoms and action leading up to it, i would say: just re-install.

Since you're in the process of getting yourself familiar with AROS, i can only suspect that you experienced multiple crashes already and/or tried every little command that you where able to locate (which is normal, please keep on doing so) but as i experienced myself it can lead up to 'damaging' the filesystem. Once there is a small hick-up, things usually go from bad to worse.

Experience showed me that using suspend is not a good option and doing a reboot usually solve things the quickest.

With regards to your OWB related issues. Have you already tried running OWB from ram: ? In ram everything is allowed to crash and mess things up as it is just ram. OWB crashes are usually not pretty and i personally try to avoid runing from physical disk (but that is my personal paranoia, not actual science based on statistics).

So I was going through games and checking them out as there are quite a few, which most of them are really nice. When I came across Net-Bubble, I just wanted to see what it looked like and chose cpu vs. cpu. It crashed with the normal suspend or reboot window, I chose suspend and it locked up. That's ok, I can just reboot it right? Well, on reboot, it's stuck at the text following GRUB, and that's as far as it goes.

So is there a way to get in to fix whatever is wrong? Or is it re-install time?