I changed my lilo.conf so that the append line is only under the first image, since I only use brltty with the second and don't need the append line with dos. I moved the map-drive lines to go between the "other=/dev/hdb1" and "table=/dev/hdb" lines. Here is the result of "/usr/sbin/lilo -v -v -q": LILO version 22.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman Released 31-Oct-2001 and compiled at 00:52:18 on Dec 5 2001. MAX_IMAGES = 27 raid_setup returns offset = 00000000 bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Global settings: Delay before booting: 10.0 seconds Command-line timeout: 10.0 seconds Always enter boot prompt Non-RAID installation Serial line access is disabled No message for boot prompt No default boot command line Images: Linux * <dev=0xe0,linear=2831> No password Boot command-line won't be locked Single-key activation VGA mode: NORMAL Kernel is loaded "high", at 0x00100000 No initial RAM disk bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) No fallback bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) Options: "ro root=303 speakup_ser=1 sb=0x220,7,1,5" 1 <dev=0xe0,linear=2831> No password Boot command-line won't be locked Single-key activation VGA mode: NORMAL Kernel is loaded "high", at 0x00100000 No initial RAM disk bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) No fallback bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) Options: "ro root=303 speakup_ser=1 sb=0x220,7,1,5" 2 <dev=0xe0,linear=2852> No password Boot command-line won't be locked Single-key activation VGA mode: NORMAL Kernel is loaded "high", at 0x00100000 No initial RAM disk bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) No fallback bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) Options: "ro root=303 sb=0x220,7,1,5" LinuxOLD <dev=0xe0,linear=2852> No password Boot command-line won't be locked Single-key activation VGA mode: NORMAL Kernel is loaded "high", at 0x00100000 No initial RAM disk bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) No fallback bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) Options: "ro root=303 sb=0x220,7,1,5" 3 <dev=0xe0,linear=2873> No password Boot command-line won't be locked Single-key activation bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) No fallback bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) BIOS drive 0x80 is mapped to 0x81 BIOS drive 0x81 is mapped to 0x80 dos <dev=0xe0,linear=2873> No password Boot command-line won't be locked Single-key activation bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) No fallback bios_dev: match on geometry alone (0x80) BIOS drive 0x80 is mapped to 0x81 BIOS drive 0x81 is mapped to 0x80