hmm, the home machine seems to be hosed, but good. hda was divided as
hda1 tiny opendos partition to launch windows from d (hdb) hda2 linux hda3 linux swap Lilo happily defaulted to whichever was most recently booted. hda2 was the bootable partition in the table. I got the bright idea to play with dosemu again. It only wants to look at bootable partitions, so i used fdisk (linux) to toggle hda1 to bootable. I didn't toggle hda2 while I was at it. dosemu happily set itself up. reboot, and it's to dos. i don't htink lilo ever shoed, but maybe it did. hmm, this isn't right, so used opendos fdisk to un-bootable hda1. it showed hda2 as not bootable, so (i think) i set it to bootable. *wham* now only dos could boot. tried switching back, but the partition table seems to have shifted , to hda2, 3, and 4. I can boot off a diskette, and briefly had lilo booting to linux. I changed fstab and lilo.config to reflect the new setup, but now I get the AF1234 (or whatever it is) instead of lilo. hitting 2 boots dos, and the diskette will do linux, but several tries have failed to get a lilo that will come up. any ideas (other than repartitioning :) rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]