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I've been running Linux on my 755CE for a long time, and my PCDOS installation disks can't be found. However, I found a tar file that seems to contain the image of my DOS partition before I wiped it out. So I installed it on /dev/hda1, took a lilo.conf from another machine I have that boots DOS off /dev/hda1 and tried to bot DOS. Unfortunately, I get a message saying that my disk is not bootable, and to insert a bootable floppy into the floppy drive. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Here's lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 vga=normal ramdisk=0 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.18 root=/dev/hda2 label=linux read-only other = /dev/hda1 label = dos table = /dev/hda Here's a list of the files in my DOS partition's root directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 502 Aug 25 1995 autoexec.bat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 506 Aug 25 1995 autoexec.mwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54654 Dec 31 1993 command.com -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123 Aug 25 1995 config.mwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123 Aug 25 1995 config.sys drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 6144 Aug 24 1995 dos -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40758 Dec 31 1993 ibmbio.com -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 37174 Dec 31 1993 ibmdos.com -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4696 Aug 24 1995 lodlin15.txt drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 2048 Aug 24 1995 mwd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Aug 25 1995 mwd110-1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 957493 Aug 25 1995 mwd110-1.exe drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Aug 25 1995 mwd110-2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 560185 Aug 25 1995 mwd110-2.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3158379 Sep 7 1995 tr14.tgz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289796 Mar 31 1995 vmlinuz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9349 Dec 31 1993 wina20.386 (It looks like I was trying to upgrade the MWAVE drivers when I took this snapshot.) I created the partition using mkfs.msdos, could that be the problem? Maybe I should boot DOS from a floppy and run DOS FDISK? Here's the output of the Linux fdisk "p" command: Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 785 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1 51 51376+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 641 641 785 146160 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 138 138 237 100800 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 238 238 640 406224 5 Extended /dev/hda5 238 238 640 406192+ 83 Linux native I've also tried this with partition 1's bootable flag set, but the result is the same. (You can maybe tell I'm a DOS neophyte..) -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN