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Hi , i just installed Slackware 11.0 on a computer (no other OS)
after install i reboot by pressing control-alt-delete , ok , wait than its says:

help please?

Greets,
Waggel

You need to install lilo to the mbr. Reboot with cd #1 and re-run lilo setup, choose expert install, and install lilo to mbr.

The OP is using grub, not lilo, so this won't work. There are people with similar problems at:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120802
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-5134.html
http://www.mepis.org/node/9283 and
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sla...rror-17-a.html as well as a bunch of other hits from google.

Can you post the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file as well as the output of fdisk -l Mr.Waggel, so that we can see what grub is trying to start up?

From where did you install grub when Slackware 11.0 come with lilo?

i downloaded the DVD image of slackware 11 , i am backing up right now , hang on gilead

grub is in /extra

A default install of slack uses LILO, not grub, unless you specifically choose to install it. I was making the asumption that grub was not installed and that it was probably left over from a previous linux distro. That, coupled with the common error of not installing lilo to the mbr, lead me to what I recommended in post #2. (This happened to me on my first slack install)

Sorry, if I assumed wrong :)

Regards,
Ryan

Thx everyone , i did it like ryanoa said , it boots :)
karma +1 :)

ok slack booted but KDE woudn't launch ?

Go back to the installation CD or DVD and put KDE in.

I think I may be swimming against the tide by installing Grub in the last few versions of Slackware. I don't have a problem with Lilo, which is the standard boot loader in Slackware, but Lilo has an issue with high partition number say hdc34 or at the top end of a large disk beyond 137Gb. Many a time older versions of Lilo could not recognise the partition Slackware has been installed (pretty common in other distros too) and I have to work around it by going with Grub.

Last night was the third time I put Grub in Slackware. It was version 11 and I installed it in sdb12. The Sata is 200Gb with rougly even spaced partitions, the last being sdb15. I did try to edit the lilo.conf to make it work but have to give up eventually. It kept saying it could not create/establish temporary files/storage. Lilo doesn't give trouble if the distros are installed in partition number lower than 15 and I have written from scratch couple of lilo.conf to make it work before.