So I got slack 3.6 installed (wow, what a lot of work - will take suse any old day :). I followed the sage advice of folks here and have found that as someone suggested you pretty much have to copy the /vmlinuz from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2 with another name or when lilo boots it uses the /vmlinuz from /dev/hda2 which creates some interesting problems with slack 3.6. Its more academic now since I am awaiting delivery of redhat 5.2 at this point and I cannot seem to get slack's obtuse setup program to see the atapi cd I have but yet it will mount it fine at shell. As an interesting point, the cdrom works quite well in suse and other stuff I have tossed at it. I think slack's gui setup tool times out too quick. I watched it mounting and my cd light does not even come on; yet when I manually mount it... ta da. Success. So the 64 buck question is there is no lilo at /dev/hdb2 since I chose to use the lilo at /dev/hda in the mbr. No point in two lilo's as Mr. Johnson points out in his followup post. Now when I decide to compile a kernel at /dev/hdb1 what do I do to get it seen? I have no lilo there to run and the /vmlinuz.slak is copied from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If I run the /sbin/lilo on /dev/hda2 it will just see the /vmlinuz.slak I placed there before. This seems rather unusual for one operating system. Comments, other ways of doing things, gratefully accepted. Using the Os/2 boot manager I booted numerous copies of OS/2 warp at different spots with no issues. Surely there is an elegant way of doing this. -- Michael E. Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>