when will I learn?

rotfl.. so now when my beautiful little vaio boots it only prints a screen full of L's.

Q. why is this, when just hours previously, I had a wonderful suse/winxp dual boot system?

A. foolishly, I installed the IE7 beta.

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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ah, i must remember, to be a microsoft person - one must be *all* microsoft *all the time*. otherwise, one gets brutally ass-bothered.