Greetings from New York City! I recently removed a hard drive and now I can't get SuSE Linux 8.0 to boot from the Windows 2000 Boot Manager. I've changed hardware before and successfully copied the first 512 bytes of the Linux bootsector to the W2K partition, so I could add the correct entry to Windows' boot.ini file. But this time, all I get is lot of "01"s when I select the SuSE boot option from Windows 2000. If I boot from the SuSE DVD I can boot my existing Linux partition (from the installation routine, not the "Boot installed OS" from that boot menu). My hardware is a DPT 3865 SCSI controller connected to a Seagate Cheetah disk that boots Windows 2000. SuSE Linux 8.0 is installed on an 18GB UDMA IDE drive connected to an on-motherboard ATA-100 controller, with the system BIOS set to boot SCSI first. The motherboard is an Asus A7V-133 with an Athlon 1200 CPU and 512MB RAM. The Linux drive is identified as /dev/hde and there are two partitions: hde1 is a 1GB swap; hde2 is a17GB ReiserFS native partition. LILO is installed on hde2. I had a second 8GB SCSI hard drive (one big extended partion formatted FAT32 for swapping files between W2K and Linux), but the drive was getting noisy and running way too hot, so I figured it was best to remove it before it died and took some data with it. After removing the dying drive Linux would no longer boot from the W2K boot loader, so I booted from the SuSE DVD, booted my installed Linux system, logged in as root, removed the mount point for the missing drive from fstab, ran /sbin/lilo, then did the "dd..." trick to get the first 512bytes from the Linux boot sector into a file (after running df to make sure I was hitting the right partition). I ftp'd the file to a temporary place, booted W2K, downloaded the boot sector file from the ftp site, modified boot.ini and rebooted. And that's when I get nothing but a screenful of "01 01 01 01..." FWIW, hde2 is marked as Active (Bootable) with fdisk. I looked around the SuSE KB web site, read the Docs on my Linux drive, but I can't see what I've done wrong--which means it's probabaly something simple and stupid! Any ideas? Thanks! -- __________________________________________________________ Another Message From... L. Mark Stone Email: LMStone@LMStone.com Web: http://www.lmstone.com