Worked like a dream - mucho thanks! Martin
>>sounds like you may have, at one point, had this line in your lilo.conf >>file... >> >>boot=/dev/hda1 if the above is the case an easier way is to uninstall lilo as follows: lilo -u /dev/hda1 this will restore the saved boot sector from /boot/boot.nnnn of the device specified with the -u option. -- groetjes, carel
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