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liloconf:

append=[hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi]

I might be wrong, but shouldn't the append line be a string, something like: append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" This worked perfectly for me for ages. Although I've now changed to both SCSI CDRW and DVD which makes things a lot simpler... RikD.