I installed KNOPPIX on a computer at a church who wants systems for playing games. It automatically installs GRUB, but it isn't very useful to me nor anyone else who would see it. I want to install LILO instead of GRUB but this is the error I get:

Unrecognized token "! Please edit /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo!" at or above line 20 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'

ERROR: correct /etc/lilo.conf manually and rerun /sbin/lilo
any help guys?
pcwiz84

can you post your /etc/lilo.conf here?

I can, but not from this computer. I'll have to go to the box with KNOPPIX installed, put the /etc/lilo.conf file on a flash drive and move it to a box with internet access to show it to you.

we will be waiting for that

Well, ya know what? I couldn't find it!!! I did a "/" search on "lilo.conf" and it came up with NOTHING!!! What do I do??? There are programs that configure LILO, but it just won't work!!!

If your Knoppix has installed Grub then you will not have /etc/lilo.conf.

Instead you will have /boot/grub/menu.lst.

List it here and we may be able to advise a translation.

Personally I prefer Grub as it is a lot simpler to use and more forgiving than Lilo.

have you mounted your root partition and chroot into it??

I just gave up and decided to install a different distro (one that has over 150 games on it). Thanx anyway.

I installed Slack 10.2, then my wife wanted to have a winblow$ environment so I installed WinXP pro. Just as I thought, the MBR was overwritten, but I knew how to fix it. Here is the way to do it:

1) Boot off the emergency disk you should have made when you installed Slack.
2) After you login, su over to root and type liloconfig.
3) On the menu that pops up, choose expert.
4) Choose new header file, then tell it to add linux then windows, with the labels you want it to display on the lilo menu. Set the amount of time you want to lilo to display before it auto boots. I choose 30 seconds because it gives me ample time to choose. These are all options on the expert menu.
5) Tell it to install Lilo. Now you have the option to install the superblock, MBR and a floppy. Most people on here tell you to install to MBR, especially when you are dual-booting because if you install it to root superblock, then you run into problems booting because Linux has to be the first boot partition, and it's really not that functional in the first place, so go ahead and install to MBR. All Lilo is, is a boot loader/manager, the same as NTLDR, or Grub.
6) When you get back to the command line, type /sbin/lilo. It should say something like "Added Linux. Added Windows." Restart your computer and you should be good to go.

Kid

thekid,

You know nowaday with a LiveCD you can boot up a Linux and "chroot" to your Slackware

To add XP to Slackware, say it is in hda3, requires only 2 lines added to /etc/lilo.conf in Slackware
To restore Lilo back into MBR with amended addition you just need to type at a root terminal
To re-configure Lilo again with liloconf program is another method.

Thanks, I'm still a myself and still learning, though it gets easier the more I use it. I'll have to remember this the next time I have a problem.