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I have an old P II 266 Digitec laptop that I want to install Slackware 10.2 on. I had Ubuntu 5.10 (way too slow) and Damn Small Linux(Too minimalistic) on it before and in both cases it booted fine.
The installation of Slackware goes through with no problems but all I get after rebooting is "Insert Boot-Disc and press any key".
I have tried to install lilo to the MBR and to the super block with the same results. I have also tried to clear out the boot sector by 'dd' ing a file of nulls to it but the results stayed the same. The machine does boot OK from the floppy into the installed system. Its just so slow and floppies are very unreliable.
I would appreciate it if someone can offer me some advice.
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