After looking through this thread, I would say that either lilo isn't replacing it's boot record or mbr is not being put on sector 0. When the system boots, sector 0 gets run which then calls another program depending on whether you are using a boot manager like lilo or not. Clearly that boot sector is not being run which can only mean a bad drive sector or no mbr is present. I suspect it has to be one of those things. If you have booted from a flopy then you need to use the chroot and -R option of lilo to have it write a new boot record to the hard drive instead of the floppy. You may be just rewriting the floppy's lilo sector. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
