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WEll I not sure what happened
When installing my slackware 9.1, I came to the part where i have to install Lilo or skip it, I set to Expert mode so that i could configure the settings of lilo, I made a header and added the target partions of Windows and Slackware, then i wanted to install it but it bounced up a message saying "you cannot install Lilo....."(can't remember the rest of the message but it was irrelevent any way.
I actually installed Slackware a few times before, but I somehow deleted the partion where linux was(how stupid can i get), it was working before, i had lilo running correctly, but i forgot how to??
then i just went mad and kept of installing Debian and slackware to have linux on my system, but whenever i finish installing debian, i wanted Slackware because i wanted slakcware.
Well, just try it in automatic mode... If you definately want to do it in expert-mode, read up a decent manual about LILO. Good luck, and slackware is indeed cool
Yeah but i now have a different problem
I installed the Lilo some where(i think i installed it in Master boot record or something), where i can't delete its setting or configuration, so i tried to get rid of it by replacing it but its still there, the lilo boot loader tries to activate a linux partion where there isn't any, i tried formatting the whole harddrive to see if i can delete the stupid lilo, but its still there.
Any ideas??
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make a windows bootdisk, boot with it to get into DOS mode, then run fdisk /mbr and it will erase lilo from mbr (master boot record) and make windows start up automatically if you have windows installed. Now install slack, choose automatic for lilo install, and choose to installl it to MBR. Once slack is working. Vim /etc/lilo.conf and add whatever you want, save and run lilo and it will update the MBR.
HTH
-NSKL
Ok
i'll try that
but i must say that i don't have any experience in using dos in my laptop, because the laptop doesn't go to dos (or you can't) and it boots straight into the operating system right away, and also how do you delete MBR using fdisk?? why not cfdisk?? is it different??
thanks for helping
Yes but it should go to the dos prompt after you boot form the disk NSKL advised you to make.
Also continually tapping F8 during the boot sequence should give you a menu with the choice to boot into dos. (Dunno if this still holds true for XP though)
thanks
I got it running again
I found a way to get into DOS, because my laptop is a pain in the ass, it won't let me directly delete the MBR so i used a window boot disk to get into DOS by quiting the installation or repair of windows and it jumped up a dos prompt. and i deleted the MBR and started all over again
PHEW.....
Gee that took me almost two three hours to figure how to delete it thanks
can live without you guys
But i think i got another problem again
when i logged on KDE, I'm not able to mount the cd-rom drive. The error message says that there might be too many IDE devices mounted on the system, and it tells me that i should consider sy() or something like that
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