I recently purchased system backup software from a company called Storix, specifically STORIX DESKTOP EDITION. One of its options is to create an entire system backup. To do that, you use a specially formatting tool built into it to format a disk drive for backup purposes, then you run a job via their GUI to create a backup on that drive. You also create a CD that can be used to boot a bare bones linux system up from which you can run the full restore against that hard drive backup (i. e., it functions like you were using your SuSE Installation CD to "boot current system". You insert this CD, boot from it, it installs a shell Linux system and then shows you a list of the backups on the hard drive. You select the one you want and it fully restores your entire system. It also allows you to make configuration changes (file system, etc.) for that installation. All this seems well and good and I have created a backup and a boot CD and ran it up to the point of pulling the trigger for a re-install, so all looks good so fare. But, there is one slight quirk. The current version of this software that I bought does not support GRUB (a new release coming out this summer will). So, at least as far as I can ascertain, when you restore from a backup, you are then automatically converted to LILO. The Storix support people told me that if I wanted to switch back to GRUB after a re-install, and assuming I had done a pure re-install (no tweaks to the partitioning, etc.) from the backup I had done, all I would have to do to get GRUB back would be to run the standard GRUB utility and have it re-write my MBR. At that point, according to them, I would be exactly back to where I started before the backup except I would have some new LILO information on my disk. They say that it would not affect my operation back under GRUB; i. e., it would be on the disk but would not be active, and everything else about my system would be just like it was before the backup. This sounds reasonable to me, assuming the LILO installation didn't re-name or otherwise change any of the other settings on my system that would then make it incompatible with GRUB. However, I not at all knowledgeable in this area and wanted to run this by some of you guys who are more familiar with the boot process to make sure what they are saying is correct. Does anyone see any problems with what they are telling me? Thanks, Greg Wallace