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Hey,

I attached my SATA HDD through USB and installed Slackware in it.
Then booted to my Slackware installation of internal HDD and attempted to install lilo.

Partition layout:

Code:

sdX1 Primary (Windows)

sdX2 Extended partition

sdX5 Logical (Slackware installed here)

lilo.conf

Code:

prompt

lba32

root=/dev/sda  #tried with sdb



label=Slackware

image=/boot/vmlinuz

read-only



label=Slackware2

image=/boot/vmlinuz

root=/dev/sda5      #tried with sdb

read-only

Code:

#parted /dev/sdb

#parted set 5 boot on  

#parted set 2 boot on

#lilo -b /dev/sdb -C /etc/lilo-sdb.conf

*Added 2 Slackware

*3 Warnings issued, (don't remember exact but says that partition doesn't reside at same drive or something like that. Googled error but it isn't fatal error apparently.)

When I then mount this drive back to computer as primary HDD and boot, I get "L 99" and extra 99 appears every second.

I've tried different lilo.configurations, removed lba32, prompt, changed root to 'sdb' instead of 'sda' but same behavior always.
But one catch that when I attach this same HDD to another computer using USB and boot, I don't L 99 but instead a lilo prompt, booting Slackware doesn't work though and ends up in kernel panic.

.