I'm running SuSE 7.3. For some reason lilo stopped working (no it was not immediately after a kernel or initrd upgrade), giving me LIL- at boot-up. After re-running lilo after booting from a grub rescue disk a while back, it started giving me the nice SuSE graphical screen but the booting process would end in a kernel panic. After a few more tries in getting it to work I switched to grub - which after some pain in installing works fine (and is more powerful, but I was reluctant to switch before now because I don't like to mess with something as important as a boot loader; especially when the boot loader has a scary version number like 0.91 ;-) ) Does anyone have an idea as to why lilo stopped working, even after re-running it to make sure it was properly synced with the kernel, while simply switching it with grub cured the problem? -- Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.