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There is absolutely no way with LILO to make it access 0x81 instead of 0x82 (though an option for doing this would be nice). I emailed the LILO author about this but never even got a response.

I thought that's what the "disk=/dev/xxx bios=0x82"-type thing is for.. basically telling LILO "when you boot, THIS drive will be there, THAT drive will be here, regardless of where they are now".

You are right!! Works fine now - but it sure didn't when I tried every sensible (and a few others) combination from the manual. I now have a sneaky suspicion that I had added the disk= and bios= lines under the image= part... So thanks for putting me on track. Volker -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/