Hi all, thanks to Matthew Peddlesden - but I tried " boot sda1:" or "boot sda1:/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1" but MILO will not load the ext2-fs: MILO: unknown filesystem on device sda1 I partitioned the HDD with ext2 (85)! I'm useing Debian2.1 and I didn't found a usefull introduction for this topic. Please can somebody help? THX, Olli