Hi there! And the question was : "After I had to abort the 8.0 -> 8.1 upgrade process, I get 'EBDA too big' error from LILO when I reboot" I've managed to trick the system to start under Windows XP (and I mean 'trick', it's not a straight reboot - I boot on the SuSE 8.1 update CD and then go to Installation, cancel it, it then launch my OLD SuSE 8.0, goes as far as the KDE logging prompt but refuses to let me in as root. I then select, still under suSE 8.0 + KDE, shutdown->reboot->windows, gives the root password (accepted) and here it goes, away from from SuSE 8.0 to Windows XP Pro ... It might be (and surely is) a disk space trouble when upgrading that triggered this strange behaviour. I have managed now to make some space on the Win XP NTFS partitions. So I can reclaim some space for SuSE ... How can I have a plain sailing dual boot Win XP Pro / SuSE 8.1 machine again? Please ... TIA. LaoToma (Yes, I've checked Google, SuSE support database, etc ...)