On Thursday 23 October 2003 03:02, techlists wrote: > it seemed to install ok, but when I rebooted, the machine would show > LI.... and start beeping. I had to reinstall lilo from a rescue disk, > which of course overwrote my lilo.conf file It usually helps to just re-run lilo if it's screwed up. LILO tends to fail when trying to wite the bootloader for some reason. -- Got Backup?