How to boot from Slack cd
 

Hello guys I think I screwed up my lilo cuz after editing it and running lilo my system doesn't boot into Slack anymore.
How can I boot into my root partition with slack cd rom?
And is it just enough to run liloconfig once I'm inside my Slack root? or just edit lilo.conf and run sbin/lilo?
Thx a lot in advance I can't use my slack anymore :(

When the machine boots and gets to the boot: prompt...type...

bare.i root=/dev/hdxx nointrd ro

Replace hdxx with your root partition...hda1, hdb1, etc.

Edit lilo.conf if needed, then run /sbin/lilo.

HTH

Ok first may help that I dual boot win2000 and slack
Win2000 is on hda and slack root on hdb2. I modified the win2000 boot.ini adding slack.lnx on my windows c:\ drive and it worked flawlessy.
I did what u said and I booted into my linux root typed linuxconfig and after selecting simple I exited and rebooted. now when I select Slackware at the windows dual boot prompt all i get is :
9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A 9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A9A
Now what :confused:

After booting into Slack...and running Lilo with a proper config...

dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:

Boot into Windows and copy the file on a: to c:\.

Then edit boot.ini and add

C:\BOOTSECT.LNX=Slackware

This is just an example of how to do this. However you initially got the dual boot working, is how you would edit my instructions.

HTH

Thx very much m8 u saved my day (ops nite :) )

Glad to hear it :)

you have to "dd" the bootsect.lnx EVERY time you run /sbin/lilo.

thats why is better to use just one boot manager ... -> LILO ...

just put "other" in lilo.conf.

M.

Thx I figured it out by myself :) but don't wanna screw qin installation :p

you will screw nothing. you can make a backup of your MBR with:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/mbr_had_backup bs=512 count=1


and than put this in lilo.conf for your windows installation:
other=/dev/hda
label=Windows
boot-as=0x80

run # /sbin/lilo && reboot

and thats it.

M.