Problem solved! It was rather dirty, but I have it working. In case anyone is wondering: I copied map and boot.b from the boot floppy disk. (not sure about this since boot.b is generated after running LiLo, but I don't know about map). I set lilo.conf such that boot=/dev/fd0 image=/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdksmp etc... and created symbolic links at the root level to the kernel images in /boot. Then I ran lilo -l -v to force the LINEAR mode. After making sure that the new floppy worked, I took its boot sector and created a file (following steps from the mini-HOWTO on Linux+NT) with it that is now in the NT root directory (C:\). After modifying boot.ini as instructed in the mini-HOWTO, I finally have LiLo working once I select it from the NT Loader. thanks. Jaime