Nobody ever said syslinux was supposed to be better then lilo. You need to run syslinux even if you replace the kernel, since the offset of where the kernel image starts on the disk is stored in ldlinux.sys. All of this is described in the syslinux docs. Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:08:54 -0700 >Subject: Re: Installing from the Woody Disks -- How? >I thought that was the point about syslinux; not to have to >"compile" the configuration. This would make it sound no better than >lilo. I do know that with lilo one has to run it every time you >change a boot parameter or insert a new kernel image. Does this mean >the only time you don't need to run syslinux is when a new kernel is >copied onto the disk?