Hello! I have a fully working W2K/Mandrake 8.0 dual boot system working at the mo on my Dell Inspiron 5000e. Unusually, I use Boot Magic in my MBR to select between W2K and Linux and then LILO kicks in (on my hda5) to ask me whether I want to boot normal linux or failsafe etc... Now I'm trying to get all this working with VMWare 2.0.3 with W2K as the host. Boot Magic kicks in fine, I select Linux and then I get: "Preparing machine to load Linux" followed by a message box saying I do not have write access to "partition -1". Now, I have enabled write access on my "/boot" "/swap" and "/" partitions so I would not expect it to need to write to anything else. Am I wrong on this matter? Being the risk-taker that I am, I allowed this to be over-ridden which gave the text "LILO 21.7" and then it just hung. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated. Mark

Mark, I'm having the same problem. Did you ever get this to work?? Kristen