I have installed slackware 10 on my computer with following partitions

/boot Primary 100mb
/ Extended 7Gb
/Swap Extended 300mb

every things goes fine
in the end it says that installation is complete press ctrl+alt+delete to reboot
when I rebooted my computer there was nothing no boot loader, I don't know why lilo was not installed or detected so please help and tell me how to manually install lilo if we have bootable slackware 10 cds.

If you have a relatively newer computer, you not really need the /boot partition. If you want to reinstall the hole beast, try not creating the /boot. It works for me. The only machine I actually needed to do a /boot was a really old Compaq 166 MHZ... Also, if I remember right, Slackware installer actually asks for you to install Lilo automatically or manual. Choose auto. If it bugs, reinstall the beast, choose manual and then create the /boot on it.

no i have already a /boot partition when i was using red hat now i am shifting to slackware so i don't want to repartition my whole system cause i have also win xp installed, one thing that will help me is that how can i manually install lilo

Hi,

uhm...it is a strange problem. Are you sure you putted the right command line into lilo.conf?
I'm thinking to a boot command error. I had the same problem in the past... when i typed lilo all goes fine, but rebooting the system does not start up. So i saw an error into my lilo.conf. The following is my lilo.conf hoping it could help you. (i cutted the not usefull comment)
bye
wizard

P.S. Anyway i don't think you'll need to repartition your system neither to lose any data. A good news, i think!


# LILO configuration file
#THE FOLLOWING IS REALLY IMPORTANT! you must change /dev/hda #with the device that contains your boot partition. In my case it is a #different partition from the root partition.
boot = /dev/hda

prompt
#timeout = 300
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga = 791

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
#the follow command is needed only if you want protect your #system from unauthorized access.
password=<a_password>
label = vmlinuz
read-only

image = /boot/bz1
root = /dev/hda2
password=<a_password>
label = Slack_2.6.9
read-only

#IMPORTANT: if your windows system is not installed on the first #partition of the disk. Lilo will not be able to start it. You'll need grub #instead.

# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows
password=<a_password>
table = /dev/hda

thanx every one my problem has been solved