Thanks to all who made suggestions: I was finally able to get LILO to work from the MBR after updating the BIOS. I should have tried that first. To answer some of the questions that people had; yes Slackware still relies on LILO ,but does not prevent using GRUB - the reason being a desire to stick to the method with the longest track record - the tried and true. The reason that I did not try copying the first 512 bytes of the Linux partition to the Windows NT partition and modifying boot.ini is that method is described in the Slackware book as a deprecated NT hack that should not be needed, as the current version of LILO has no problem with Win 95,98,2K... (That 'hack' worked quite nicely after I updated the BIOS to the latest version - 1.22 (2001/10/12) ) That fdisk is limited to 4 primary partitions was only a problem due to my ignorant assumption that Linux needed to live on primary partitions. All of my problems were due to my antique BIOS not being willing to look at anything beyond the 1023rd cylinder. Thanks to all for their help and guidance. --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html ---