Dear friends: Here is a lilo trick taught me by one of our premier gurus. PROBLEM: How do you configure lilo to handle a dual-boot Linux/Windows system, where Windows is NOT on the first drive (hda) but on the second or third (hdb or hdc). In my case, I have a system with Linux installed on hda and hdb and Windows installed on hdc. How to configure it without physically switching the Linux hda and the Windows hdc disks. In fact, I recently tried to do this, and it failed. SOLUTION: Unbelievably simple, that is, if you are a Linux master like Jose M. Sanchez: Just open the lilo.conf file in a text editor and change 0 X 81, 81 X 0 to 0 X 82, 82 X 0. Here is my lilo.conf file: [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/hdc1 label=Win98 table=/dev/hdc map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x82 map-drive = 0x82 to = 0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 append="" read-only Very ingenious, but it works -- EVERY TIME. It's a way of fooling Linux into thinking that Windows is on hda instead of really being on hdc. Hope this helps those of you who have this problem. Yours, Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]