Yup during the install, you will be asked where you want to put the bootblock install it on /dev/hda? where ? is a number rather than /dev/hda That will install lilo on the partition rather than MBR of the disk James ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html