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Hi all, You might have been enjoying the relative peace and quiet recently without my contast pestering - my hard disk crashed on my desktop PC (it was only 11 months old, too: I guess I should be grateful that it was still under warranty), which means I've been put offline, as my new laptop doesn't have a serial port... Incidentally, can anyone suggest (or sell me!) a linux compatible USB or PC Card 56K modem? I rooted around on the 'Net but I couldn't find much. This was going to be a question, but I answered it myself, I thought I'd post it for future reference. Plus it proves I do fix *some* things myself without pestering you lot ;-) -- Anyway, to the subject of the post. I've managed to install Mandrake 9.1 and Debian 3.0 on seperate partitions on my laptop. I couldn't quite figure out how to make the Debian LILO boot into Mandrake, so I resintalled the Mandrake boot loader, but then, well, you've guessed it. So I copied the Debian "vmlinuz" image into /boot and added a section in the current lilo.conf for it (and ran "lilo"). This works as far as booting the image, etc., but it then says words to the effect of "can't find init, try passing the init= option". For the Mandrake definition in lilo.conf, it has a line "initrd=/boot/initrd.img", which points to a "mdk" version of init. The debian "init" is in /sbin/init - just pass "init=/sbin/init" to the kernel (in the "append" line) and it all works 8-) Wow, doesn't that make me feel clever ;-) Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.