landie@concentric.net wrote:

one of mmy main problems now is i cant run lilo

every time i run lilo i get warning: bios drive 0x82 may not be accessible and when i try to boot from floopy get lots lots of 0 zeros

You could be experiencing the effects of one of the BIOS limitations of LILO. How recent is your computer/BIOS? You may want to consider updating the BIOS... Is there any way you can move the drive to slave on the first controller? Or even master on the first controller? Here is the relevent section of /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/README: BIOS restrictions - - - - - - - - - Nowadays, an increasing number of systems is equipped with comparably large disks or even with multiple disks. At the time the disk interface of the standard PC BIOS has been designed (about 16 years ago), such configurations were apparently considered to be too unlikely to be worth supporting. The most common BIOS restrictions that affect LILO are the limitation to two hard disks and the inability to access more than 1024 cylinders per disk. LILO can detect both conditions, but in order to work around the underlying problems, manual intervention is necessary. The drive limit does not exist in every BIOS. Some modern motherboards and disk controllers are equipped with a BIOS that supports more (typically four) disk drives. When attempting to access the third, fourth, etc. drive, LILO prints a warning message but continues. Unless the BIOS really supports more than two drives, the system will _not_ be able to boot in that case.* * However, if only "unimportant" parts of the system are located on the "high" drives, some functionality may be available. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\