Thank you everybody for your help. I found my mistake.
I never used Lilo before on a hard disk and on this computer the creation of a boot floppy failed consistently so I used another computer's vmlinuz in combination with loadlin to reboot. As an act of desperation, I made the hard disk bootable (it has a NT system on the first partition and I still have to figure out how to be able to boot NT after this) and there was no problems when I rebooted again. Johann -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires." James 1:19,20