well first things first, yes i did write lilo to my linux partition, im sure of it. second ive never even seen lilo nevermind running it. third thing, i usually use "knoppix lang=us" at bootup just so that it's in english so i can understand it but i dont think that would matter much would it? and fourth and final thing, i dont know how in the world im supposed to be coppying my lilo.conf so i can get it on to windows and i dont want to be hand writing it because i may make a mistake and that wouldn't be could. sorry about all the trouble here ive caused but i really want to get this to work. thanks alot