Buddy, A couple thoughts: 1. If you have a large disk drive, lilo may not be able to find the root filesystem and its associated files unless you use the linear option in lilo.conf. 2. I don't use debian, but I also copy the kernel to /vmlinuz: no symlinks. 3. Make sure you have a good kernel by copying it to a floppy with: cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 and try booting from it. GL 73, Chris w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org