On January 2, 2006 21:54, Robert L Cochran wrote: > LI > > I have some memory that this is the word LINUX and how many letters of > the word are spelled out on the screen indicate something about the > nature of the boot problem. Hi Robert, For the lilo prompt descriptions, I happen to have something on that: Prompt Description L<nn> represents one of 16 disk-error codes. LI The second-stage boot loader loaded, but could not run. LIL? The descriptor table could not be read. LIL The second-stage boot loader loaded at an incorrect address. LIL- LILO found a corrupt descriptor table. LILO LILO ran successfully. Hope this helps, Phil