Thanks to all who replied - the solution has been found. Perhaps I should have titled the request "Lilo boot from slave ..." because the issue was not having the master drive present, but we want to boot from it when it is present! Problem was in getting boot from slave drive when it is the first drive.
The fix is (in lilo.conf): disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 Works fine for me. Thank you everyone Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]