There you go! I also boot from HDs on a promise card. Grub rules. LILO just can't handle this configuration I guess. > > I have had this exact problem! In my case, it was the IDE zip drive that > > was causing the problem. You need to change the BIOS to "none" instead of > > "autodetect". I would agree with the other respondents as well, be sure > > your jumpers are set right (esp. that you have master or single set > > correctly.). If you have any removable media on your IDE channels such as > > the already mentioned zip drive, change the BIOS settings. Let us know > how > > it goes! > >I am not really sure what the problem was. It appeared to have been in the >BIOS though. After screwing up the system trying to get it working I had to >reinstall. I lost some data in the process. After formatting and >reinstalling, I >was left with the exact same problem. I didn't have a ZIP in the system >either. >Just the two new drives on the ATA/100 card, and one HDD on the primary >IDE, and one CD-ROM on the secondary IDE. > >After an hour of messing with the BIOS the dang thing started working. I >think >the trick was messing with the boot order of my devices. It was set to the >following: > >1 - Removeables >2 - CR-ROM >3 - HDD >4 - Network > >That is the order I had both before and after I had the problems. The BIOS >let >me 'enter' the HDD entry and under that there were two options. The first >said >something like 'ISA/PCI cards' and the second was hard drives. I swapped the >order and the system booted up with GRUB. I didn't even know that those >options existed. You are the first person I have come across to have a >similar >problem. > >Good luck,