I have had the exact problem before. It's a LILO issue. If you upgrade to the latest version of LILO (22.3, I believe), it should fix the problem. -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Rob Wultsch Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:52 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Lilo, the woman that ruined my life. Howdy. I have a old laptop (toshiba 420 CDT, p1-100, 40 MB, 20 GB, ) that I would like to get working. I however do not have a boot medium, so I have tried installing various OS's on a hard drive and then transplanting them into the laptop. Under Windows it will not recognive the hd as a valid system disk. Under linux I get the following: "L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40This BASIC was aborted, because this machine has no ROM BASIC. Use Toshiba's BASIC" I have played with lilo untilt the cows came home and started to mew telling me to ask for help. ------------------------- Robert James Wultsch III robert.wultsch@asu.edu sheepsleep7 (AIM) (480)951-3169 (Home) (602)692-7564 (Cell) 6900 East Gold Dust #107 Scottsdale, Arizona 85253, USA Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss