You convinced me. I fixed this problem in the default lilo package. I will upload it as soon as possible. lilo-nondevfs doesn't longer exist. The lilo package that fixes these bugs can be found (in the meantime) at: deb http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan/debian unstable main deb-src http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan/debian unstable main Sincerely -- Andres Roldan, CSO Fluidsignal Group