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Andrew wrote:
>
> BL3 is installed on my hd and works from DOS.

That's why I use loadlin (instead of lilo).  
It usually works.

> I have downloaded lilo from SW4, 

lilo, on the other hand, usually has some problem to overcome.

> copied zimage to /boot 

I'm no lilo expert, but I seem to recall that something
else is needed in /boot

> and made a lilo.conf.

I assume you executed:  lilo -v

> Win98 boots OK. BL3 starts to boot but only gets as
> far as the Busybox message; after that it says:
> 
> "No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever"

This error is usually caused by some problem with your root
filesystem.  Most likely you are running it read-only.

Cheers,
Steven