Hi. I'm new to all this linux stuff...

Trying to dual boot Windows 7/Slackware 12.2 on a Thinkpad T60p.

Slackware installs fine I guess but whenever I try to install lilo I get this message:

"warning: partition 4 on /dev/sda is not marked active.
warning: device 0x0800: inconsistent partition table, 4th entry
CHS address in PT: 915:0:1 --> LBA (14699475)
LBA address in PT: 13834800 --> CHS (861:45:1)
Fatal: either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified.
If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-p ignore)"

Not sure what any of this means.

I also tried to make a boot USB key but apparently that did nothing because all the stuff on it before is still there on the drive.

I have been trying for a long time to actually use this OS, and am dying to even start using it, but it seems very difficult. Any help would be appreciated.

OK, look in your BIOS. Is there a setting for the HD, that has options like
DOS / Other?
Make sure it's set for DOS and not "Other".

Thanks for the reply.

These are my BIOS options:

Config
Date/Time
Security
Startup
Restart
HDD diagnostics


Nothing in the menu seems to have the option you are talking about.

Well, you can try to do what it says, of course, that is, run
lilo -P ignore
but don't forget to back up your data first.

I think I'm going to try another more n00b friendly distro instead.

Thanks anyway.

You can delete this thread if you want.

I don't think the problem is in the distro, looks like something is wrong with your partition table. My first question came from a discussion I found online where somebody was trying to install some other distro on r60 and faced the same problem. It was cured by a change in the BIOS.

This class of notebook have some hidden partition for recovery purpose?