If I remember correctly this is a symptom of LILO when you're beyond the 1024 cylinder limitation on your HDD. Try setting the system up with a small /boot partition when you install Linux. 15MB is plenty big enough. See if that helps. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= *----------------------------------------------------* On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 Henningsen had this to say! > I must log into Linux from a floppy because LILO hangs after printing LI. I > read the manual and found that this indicates an error condition at a > certain point, but the suggestions about what to do about it went right over > my head. Any suggestions what I could try in concrete terms? > > Peter Henningsen > > >