My dad and sis in Bombay are having trouble booting into linux. They tell me that the system hangs when it comes to loading modules.

At some point in the last month CMOS got reset and it started giving floppy drive errors (I don't have a floppy drive). A friend fixed the BIOS, and windows can boot, but linux won't go past the loading modules part.

I need to ask a big favour. Someone who thinks they can fix this will have to drop in to Bandra and try and fix it. I'm available if you need to ask anything, but I'm not sure when I'll next be in Mumbai to test things.

I really don't like the idea of them connecting to the net through windows, and most of what they need to do is through linux, so I really need someone to help fast.

Thanks,

Philip