Well, after all, I cannot boot off of anything on the second disk. I first tried a boot manager called gag, that runs off a floppy. I figured that this would be easier than messing with liloconf. No dice, it does not seem to want to boot off the second HD. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that I have the /boot on one partition and the / on another. Then I tried Lilo, and that doesn't work either. I have the following: hda1 is my win partition hda6 is my Mandrake 1 partition These two can boot fine hdb1 is my Mandrake 2 /boot partition hdb11 is my Mandrake 2 / partition Lilo won't accept anything I try for the second disk. I have tried: image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 label=md I thought this would tell it to look in the /boot partition and find the right kernel, but no dice. I get a message saying there is no init. Can this really work with seperate /boot and / partitions? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France