Hi Baldyeti.....OK that sounds like a plan....I still am wondering about the error that says "hda1 does not have a valid boot signature" when I run lilo -v after editing it from the 2nd LINUX installation, which is on hda3.

I am confused between the options of NOT installing lilo and installing to root partition. With a dual boot, wont choosing either give same results? I understand about merging the 2 files, but whats causing th error?

Is it because of not editing lilo correctly? I am not very good with this part of an OS. I dont quite fully understand the terms. Like "boot signature". Does that mean the mount point is NOT "/"? I really dont want to re install the OS on hda1 again if I dont have to. Its not a big deal cause its a small knoppix-type.

I looked at some sample lilo.conf files on internet. Some of them look so easy, that I dont know how I can not do it right! Its confusing, the lines like :initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.26" and the like......This is what I dont know how to get form the OS's to copy it to lilo. I would like to learn the structure ofthese lines so they make sense in case I need to do this again or want to put 4 OS's on computer in future!!!

I am trying to figure it out deductivly.....like the line "image=/boot/vmlinuz=2.4.26" and "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.26" Both lines seem to contain the same kernal image number.......

But some samples I looked at dont even have the initrd line! ......OK well I will do as suggested above and post back later this evening...thanks for all your patience!! bob