Hello all, I asked about this last week and got no reply, but seeing as how i have just managed to make both my XP & SuSe partitions unbootable i thought i should ask for some advice again! Ok, i have suse on its own hd on my primary ide. Xp is on my promise FastTrak 376 controller. Until this afternoon, I booted by selecting the drive in the bios and then either going through lilo, or the xp boot manager. Now i've tried fiddling with my lilo conf until i was blue in the face, but i couldn't get it to recognise the XP drive (even though i could see it perfectly well in linux), so i thought: "well why don't i put lilo on the xp drive and since it would be installed on the sata drive, maybe it would find booting onto it easier". so i did lilo -m /dev/sda. i think - i can't check as i can't boot into linux! anyway i rewrote the mbr... presumably with a linux version or something so i broke my xp drive. in the process of trying to fix it (which i now have as i can write this!) i over wrote lilo with the xp mbr. So my question is, what is the best solution - can i install lilo on the drive that linux isn't on? and would that help my lack of booting onto my sata drive? or am i just being stupid and just need to fix my original lilo install? and any tips on howto make my suse partition bootable again would be most helpful! thanks! Robin