On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote: > I gave up. I tried everything. Don't know what the problem was (buggy > bios/corrupt fs ....) and don't care now. Taking too much time to > simply re-install grub (6hrs). I'm doing a complete re-install on the > laptop. Sorry you had a bad problem with this. Possibly this page on the Wiki will give you some pointers: <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops> For those of us who are newbies, it's frequently frustrating, but when you get something that was problematic to work properly, it feels good and something was learned.