I upgraded my Slack 9.1 to current yesterday (excluding XFree86) the upgrade itself went well without any problems but when i reboot and select to run Slack, I get a blank screen no prompt.

My system is dual boot with m$ XP and i use the windows boot loader to start Linux because i have a compaq Presario pc which has a fat32 partition in which compaq have store some of their boot files. As such when i install lilo to the MBR the system panics and I have to run windows recovery to get XP working.

Anyway so I use the windows bootloader and it allows me to have my dual boot system.

The bootdisk i have for linux is for kernel 2.4.22 but now the kernel is 2.4.25 after upgrade.

Help me please !!

Windows XP dual boot program? I haven't heard of that.

You should have more luck installing lilo or grub as your boot manager. I'm sure that if a Microsoft XP boot manager does exist, that it is not designed to work with Linux.

I installed lilo to root and yes you can start linux from the windows boot manager. That is the way I have been starting linux since i installed and it works great. Windows basically calls lilo then lilo runs slack.

The boot disk being a different kernel version to your installation is not a problem. Once you know what the error is you can boot from the boot disk, mount your linux partition(s) and modify the appropriate files to fix the error, then reboot.

Perhaps you can post your lilo configuration, and a more precise description of the error message.

Well i have fixed that now. All i had to do was create a copy of the boot sector in linux. Copy it into the c:\ on windows and then run bootcfg /rebuild from the recovery console and i can now boot linux again.