Thru a comedy of errors, my last resort was to install XP on a partition on my Linux HDD in my lappy (/dev/hda2)

Due to the same procedure, I cannot access my SLackware install ((/dev/hda1)

Nor do I have ANY Slackware disks, nor a fast enough connection to the 'Net right now.

I know that there is a procedure to modify boot.ini to let Slackware boot. If so, then I could install Lilo, then everything would be cool.

Can you point me in the correct direction? Or shpould I look at a different bootmanager that is installable thru XP?

Did a quick search and I came across this http://www.slackbook.org/html/booting-dual.html.

Did you try using a knoppix boot disk to install LILO? That may be a better choice.

For a modified boot.ini you would still need the 512 byte sized root sector of your Slackware partition to be present on your Windows partition, and I guess you don't have access to any means of extracting that root sector in Windows anyway (in linux it would be "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1" to create the file "bootsect.lnx" which you would then have to copy to your Windows C: drive and add it as a boot option in boot.ini).

If your computer is able to boot from a USB stick I would recommend downloading the USB installer image at http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackboot/usb/ (35 MB in size) and copy that to your USB stick if you have one. That will allow you to boot the Slackware installer and type the command shown after "In a pinch, you can boot your system from here" to get to your Slackware. The rest should be obvious I hope.

Cheers, Eric

Hey Iv'e been booting into slack using a version of grub places in my windows partition. Here's a site that explains this pretty well; its for knoppix but it works all in the same. (The files are about halfway down the page)

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Win_Partition

If you follow the steps listed you can write your self in using the menu list you placed in your C:/ drive, no need to boot linux to do this either.

To answer that READ MY POSTNo disks, no net, so screw Knoppix(Like I'd use that anyway)

My pet fish Eric points out an obvious deficiency: Can't get to the root sector of hda1. Bugger

I am looking at other possibilities though...Alternate Bootmanagers...

I'll letcha know

How about trying to access your Slackware filesystems from within Windows?

I assume you have at least some connectivity to the 'net since you're posting here. Something like this: Explore2fs or this: rfstool will let you access Linux partitions from within Windows.

Once you have access, then you can copy loadlin (usually installed under /root in Slackware) to your Windows partition and use it to boot into Slackware. Then you can re-run lilo.

Just a suggestion...

I think i found exactly what you need. doesn't require you to be in linux to modify anything at all (or at least from what i could tell).
http://home.ubalt.edu/abento/linux/r...ualbootNT.html
it does require you to download one thing but it's small, 25KB.

let me know if it works, cuz it seems like it would be a good program to have all around for just in case.