Of course, Jeremiah Mahler's idea worked. I made the script, #!/bin/bash set -e mkfs -c /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 </vmlinuz cat >/floppy/vmlinuz lilo -C ~/lilo-bootdisc.conf umount /dev/fd0 And lilo-bootdisc.conf was, compact boot=/dev/fd0 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=40 image=/floppy/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda2 read-only append="whatever..." ...and all works fine. (-: -- Mark