Here is Lawson's solution to my problems making a lilo boot floppy. For what it's worth, elvis 2.1 defaults to _not_ showing carriage returns. Kurt On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Kurt Kehler wrote: > After running # lilo -C /etc/lilo.flop > it says # "ot a number: "50 > > Thanks, > Kurt OOPS! I should have recognized that. You pulled my lilo.flop out of the mail and started working on it, didn't you? When you pull text out of mail, you need to fromdos it to get rid of the carriage returns mailers put in before each newline. lilo is trying to tell you that "50<carriage return>" is not a number, but the carriage return makes the last " land on top of the n in not. fromdos <lilo.flop >lilo.good mv lilo.good lilo.flop. If you don't have fromdos, dos2unix, or tr -d "\r" will work. And you picked the rescue section of lilo.flop because it had the only remotely recognizable kernal image name. I name my kernels things that make sense to me. Sorry for the confusion and delay. Lawson
