Jay Kline wrote: > Is this all on one drive? Or multiple drives? Where is Linux installed on the > drive? Yes, this is all on one drive. lilo is installed in the MBR. The /boot partition is on hda4. Here is part of my lilo.conf file; LILO version 21.4-4 Reading boot sector vrom /dev/hda merging with /boot/boot.0 mapping message file: /boot/message boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 added linux.bak boot other: /dev/hda2, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.d added nt mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.4.9-34.img added linux * Here is the partition layout; 31MB EISA Configuration 55MB /boot hda4 9.77GB /usr hda6 5.86GB /home hda7 3.91GB /var hda8 2.98GB / hda9 1.95GB /tmp hda10 1004MB swap 1.95GB C: system 3.91GB D: 5.86GB G: > I got this error once when I forgot to put in the initrd image. I think it can > also happen when you use initrd, and / cant be mounted (is this correct?) The initrd image is in the lilo.conf listing. > I assume that since you took a look at the file, everything looks ok in it. > Try using the -v option to get more output about whats going on. Also, try > > lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf > > and see if that helps. Another one to try before you chroot is > > lilo -v -r /mnt/sysimage I tried both of these with no effect. Attached is a copy of the partition list from the W2k machine. The reason I got this is I wanted to add more free space to the C: drive. Thanks -- cYa John Don't give up. DON'T EVER GIVE UP!!! "Jimmy V"