Anthony Towns wrote: > You'll note I didn't say the install media: I said "rescue disk". We > can't reasonably do without a rescue disk; whether it's the same as > the installer or some other difficult to maintain offshoot of b-f's is > another matter. Ok, fair enough. Although I have never used lilo on a rescue disk to fix a broken system. If lilo's broken, I boot the rescue disk with root=/dev/sdxx, then fix lilo inside the normal debian system. -- see shy jo