hi guys, I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. my problem is however, I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. would anyone have any idea as to why this is? just to give a quick background, I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I get linux to come up. thanks in advance for any help -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno at goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435