Vince, at al -- ...and then Vince Negri said... % % > So why does the thing boot into 2.4.21, apparently from my hda2 9.0 % slice?? % % Because your lilo.conf is pointing to % /boot/vmlinuz for both 9.0 and 9.1. Eh? *duh* % % The /boot referred to in lilo.conf is *not* the /boot folder % that is in place when the system is booted, but the /boot % folder that is in place *at the moment lilo is run.* So that % /boot/vmlinuz gets parsed as the same kernel in all cases Aha! Oh! I get it now! How very interesting. % % Did you, perhaps, get a YOU kernel update for 9.0 recently? With % the lilo.conf you have, that would end up with all suse's booting % the same kernel. I did, and YOU tells me that another is on the way. % % To avoid a total descent into madness :) you either need to % a) switch to GRUB or Bleah. Never. Ugh. Well, OK, maybe not 'never', but 'only when I can do the equivalent of "lilo -R suse91" will I try it again'. I very definitely did not like it. % b) fix your lilo.conf. Easy enough and much better for my situation. % % For b), you would need to edit your fstab so that your 9.0 install % mounted hda1 (read-only) at some directory, say % /mnt/suse91, and then your lilo.conf would end with % % image = /mnt/suse91/boot/vmlinuz % label = suse91 % initrd = /mnt/suse91/boot/initrd % ..etc.. Got ya. And this never bit me before because I usually run one SuSE and a few non-Linuxes and, in the case when I do run multiple Linuxes, I generally have them all mounted :-) % % % Then re-running lilo from suse9.0 would fix everything. % I hope this makes sense! It does; it makes perfect sense (especially now that I've learned something new), and I'm quite grateful. I'll have to try it out later but I sure look forward to doing so! % % However, you haven't said what bootloader setup you asked % for when installing 9.1. Did you tell yast not to install a % bootloader, because you intended all along to boot via % your original lilo setup? Yep; that's exactly right. This is just a temporary install in swap; I didn't want to switch boot loader partitions as well. Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!