spent the last two days "upgrading" my systems by installing 9.0. In the process I've encountered several problems with Grub. First, I'd like to remove grub from the system and replace with LILO, or at least that's my thought at the moment. With LILO I could simply boot the 98se drive to DOS and type "fdisk /mbr." Doesn't seem to work with grub. What do I need to know about GRUB in order to remove it? Second, I'm currently getting the following error message at boot: GRUB Loading Stage 2 . . . graphics file "(hd1,1) /dev/null" missing, press a key to continue . . . which give me a text loading screen. What is the file I'm missing, where do I go get it, and where do I place it once I've found a copy. The box is configured as follows: sda (winders) needed for wife's work sdb (SuSE 8.2) my current mail box sdc (SuSE 9.0) where I'd like to migrate everything My goal was to first update sdb from 7.3 to 8.2 as I'm fairly comfortable with this release having run it on another box for a while. That didn't migrate as well as I had hoped, it wouldn't boot, so I ended up attempting doing a repair with the SuSE 9.0 CD. I got a lot of error message from the SuSE distro CD attempting the repair, but I'm working off that release right now so the mail stuff seems to be stable for now. I then did a new install of 9.0 on sdc. I had GREAT difficulty getting the boot loader to go anywhere but sda which isn't my first choice (IBM 73 G SCSI drive that is not fully stable) but that is where it is at the moment. Grub wouldn't write to the floppy, and while it would write to sdc or sdb, these choices resulted in either a "no operating system" message or a grub hard halt display with GRUB and two spaces followed by a flashing cursor. I've got a few more GRUB questions, but I'll save those for later. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe