Simon Shapiro: And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does not use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with? Please note that we shouldn't drop a user base just because Microsoft has stopped supporting them. More to the point, while "DOS" is a lousy operating system, it does all right as a program loader. It's certainly fancier than lilo [if not as distributable.] -- Raul