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Well, where is lilo installed? There are options to install it on the mbr (master boot record of the drive or on an active partition. When you run fdisk or cfdisk you should mark one of the partitions as bootable. I like using my linux root partition as the boot partition. Then I install lilo on that root partition with the following lines in /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda4 root=/dev/hda4 These tell lilo where the boot partition is and etc. If you have it pointing to just the disk /dev/hda then it writes to the mbr. Then when you run windows it sees a messed up mbr and fixes it. Moral of the story: make an ext2 partition a bootable partition with fdisk set lilo.conf boot parameters to point to that partition with the boot line. Please read the lilo user's guide in /usr/doc/lilo? umweber@mcs.drexel.edu wrote: > > speaking of the mbr, does anyone know why once in awhile, and this only > happens when the machine isn't properly shut down, that the mbr has been > magicially wiped of lilo, and I see that scary "Starting Windows 98..." > What could be doing this? I am only just curious because and don't really -- 0 0 L & R Associates " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug