Hi, With the raid thing you might check the lilo.conf for a line that talks about the helpful raid thing it does, it may have somehow been uncommented. Also with the debian etch install disc the menu offers a shell, I don't remember how far you need to be in the install process to get the choice for a shell but that is there also. Dan Steve Holmes wrote: > Well for now, I have lilo installed but for some reason, it doesn't > work right either. In the mean time, I booted with my slackware cd, > got into a shell and am trying to run lilo with a chroot to update the > lilo.conf file. But now I get a faital error about raid_setup. god > knows what's going on here. What does raid_setup got to do with lilo? >