also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:32:55PM +0200): > Good idea, but would need rescue disc wiht xfs-enabled kernel for it, so > this one must do it
huh? assuming that you are going to leave your linux partitions alone, you need a debian rescue disk, you mount your previous linux installation rooted at /mnt, then you run a chroot'd lilo, which will use the lilo.conf and kernel of your previous installation to write to the boot record configured in (/mnt)/etc/lilo.conf. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1-800-psych hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. if you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. no one will answer.