What I actually did was take hda (on IDE#1) out and leave hdc in (on IDE#2). No boot. Swapped hda in to the same IDE channel (#2) that hdc was on (thinking that maybe the bios doesn't like booting off the #2 channel (though I know it will boot on #2 for the GX1, GX240 and so on.)) Booted just fine so it wasn't channel #2. Being the suspicious type, I put hdc on to #1 and no boot.
So, the problem followed hdc around.
After I read Mary's post and looked at the links. I discovered the info I alluded to in my earlier post: the bios in some computers manufactured before 2002 cannot handle partitions in larger drives that violate some of the older 'rules' regarding where a partition ends.
I haven't done a ton of reading about the why of the partition issue yet, but I have to travel on business this week so I may get to while I'm sitting around!
Next project is going to be getting the server to work with the outlook 2003 calendar and address book. Fortunately, there appears to be a huge amount of information out there on that topic.
Thanks again to all.
ghopper
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