I am getting this L99 99 99 99 etc.... at boot. I had this problem before and fixed it but I cannot find the post, it was a while ago. I did find some similar posts but they dont give any info differentyl from what I have done. How do I get rid of the L99 99 99 99? and boot normally.

If I remember correctly this is related to lilo. I tried installing lilo to the MBR but it said it could not and the same for ROOT. How can I fix the MBR and eliminate lilo to boot right into linux? Would booting into dos with a boot diska and doing "fdisk/mbr" do it?

Slack 10

Thanks.

The L99 error is a Lilo error. It means that Lilo didn't install correctly. To boot into Linux pop the first Slack CD into your CD-ROM drive, boot up, and at the boot prompt type in

Replace the /dev/hda2 with the location of your root partition. Now my limited knowledge doesn't know how to fix Lilo to install into the MBR, but I do know that

1. Linux needs a boot loader such as GRUB or Lilo
2. booting into DOS and doing fdisk /mbr will replace any attempt to install a boot loader onto the hard drive and make windows the only entry into the MBR,

I did hda1 instead of 2 cuz thats my primary and then reinstalled lilo. Thanks for the help.