I just bought a new hard drive & installed XP first. Next, I installed Slackware 9.1.

Now on the old hard drive, lilo was installed automatically, without problems, even though I had to add windows manually. With the new setup, liloconfig doesn't work at all! It just tells me that lilo couldn't write to the mbr and I have no clue as to why. I've tried over & over.

Any similar experiences? Its getting to be a pain booting up slackware with a floppy

I'd try grub, but (a) I've heard its not very compatible with XP, and (b) its too difficult.

I'd try grub, but (a) I've heard its not very compatible with XP, and (b) its too difficult.

well i used grub when I installed debain sarge on my xp machine w/o a problem it works fine with xp

"liloconfig doesn't work at all! It just tells me that lilo couldn't write to the mbr and I have no clue as to why. "

Could you post /etc/lilo.conf?

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