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ok all this week ive been going back and forth between slack and hat and ive finally decided that slack is what im going w/ cuase its way faster and even tho its somewhat confusing for a noob like msyelf i htink its worth it to learn. but the problem i installed slack 9 and formatted my harddrive to get rid of redhat9 but its lilo loader is still there now whenver i start up it scans the bus find the harddrive says hda1......ok then it says grub (redhat lilo loader) and that stops the slack lilo loader from working... my question is how do i make it go away . any help would be greatly appriacted ... thanx
synth
i dont have any other os's on my system and slack is already partitioned to boot its the only parition i have on my system and i made sure to set it to boot any help is greatly appriciated.... thanx
synth
In a root term "lilo" and see what it returns. Did you install lilo to the MBR when you installed Slack? You /etc/lilo.config should read "boot=hda" and not "boot=hda1".
if you have a windows boot disk you can boot with it, go to the c: prompt and enter fdisk /mbr this will remove the master boot record. You can then boot up slack with your slackware boot disk (you did make one didn't you?) and then can run lilo.config and setup lilo again.
lol u have a binder well i shoudln't be life cause i have a folder w/ files of stuff ive leanred about linux.... oh well all the advice worked and now my system boots properrly and redhat is finally gone
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