Hey, Ok, what happened was this. Apparently when I apt-get remove'd exim, debian in it's infinite wisdom decided I don't need lilo, because, if you don't want to run SMTP on your machine you DEFINETLY don't need to BOOT or anything. The BBC image I DLed didn't work cause these PNY discs are crap. What I ended up doing was this: - Boot into rescue from Mandrake 8.0 Beta. - Mount my old / and /boot - mkdir -p /mnt/tmp/var/<whatever RPM wants> - Mount Mandrake CD. - RPM install lilo from Mandrake onto /mnt/tmp (ie, my /) At this point I can run lilo but there's no /boot/boot.b, so I copied that off of Mandrake's lilo package. It all works now! (: AND I've reinstalled LILO (and exim... grrr. I've dpkg'd it out but it seems to reappear...) -Yaron --