I have just upgraded my Slack 9.1 to 10.0 using swaret and everything seemed just fine. I even rebooted my computer just to make sure nothing got broken and it worked !

This morning I tried to boot into my new system and LILO give the error L 99 99 etc. (lots of 99's). I booted up from the installation cd, mounted the swap and the root partitions and tried to reconfigure lilo and to install it again (on the root partition). I think it is time to tell you that my swap partition is 2GB and it is the first partion on my second hard (hdc1) and my root partition is second (hdc2). When I run liloconfig it creates a file which has the boot partition on /dev/fd2 ... which of course cannot be installed when I run lilo. When I chanced it mannually to /dev/hdc2 I can run lilo but it doesn't boot (it give the L 99 99 etc error).

Does this have something to do with the large swap partition? By the way I never had any problems with 9.1 version. I really would like to keep lilo on the root partition so "install lilo on MBR..." will not work for me.

And the most important question of all...how do I fix it?

Thanks guys, I like this place a lot....
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Man, I am stupid, I solved the problem ...

I am using the dual boot Windows XP and Linux and in the first instance I have the Windows bootloader to choose Win or Lin. When I choose Lin it goes into Lilo.... that's where my problem was. The operating systems are installed on different hard drives.

When I set up BIOS to boot the Linux hard drive directly it worked just fine. The problem was that I forgot to update those first 512 bytes of the linux root partitions that are stored on the Windows hard disk.

Banged my head against the wall about 10 minutes for this ... Well I am learning the hard way.
Thanks for reading,
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