I have had slack before but, I have never tried to set it up after a previous fedora core setup. I have formated all my linux partition and then began setup of the slackware 10. I installed both cds and when I come up to the lilo bootloader section , the window says ," sorry can't install lilo ..... do configuration manually ... blah blah...". I tried setting it up manually and the window says the same thing ?? So is there a conflict with the grub bootloader and the lilo bootloader? I am trying to install on the MBR. I am dual booting with windows 2k so I need this bootloader sometimes. Thanks!
Diz12

Though i did not have GRUB previously installed i did find that there were problems with me trying to install lilo from the installation system provided with Slack. This was in relevence to the fact that my mountings were not the same as what the installer had expected.

it was trying to find lilo.conf under /etc/lilo.conf (i think thats correct) when the hard drive (/dev/hda)'s directorys were mounted as /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

Im not sure the directories I listed are correct, ill check them when i get home, but the main point is that during installation the prefix of "/mnt" was interfearing with the installers ability to edit lilo.conf and exec the lilo binary that would regularly install it as the system booter where ever I wanted it.

Adding to what PSIPHON said, boot your system with the second installer disk (LiveCD rescue) and run liloconfig that way.

thanks for your posts. ok I have gentoo live cd . I can stick that in and boots in the command line. Should I do the following:
- locate lilo.conf
- then what run it in pico or another text editor?
- how should I set it up?

Thanks again guys,
Diz12

you might have to redo your partition table to have lilo installed.. this only works if you don't have any OS installed and there are no partitions available.. so to start..

run fdisk and delete all partitions..

run 'parted' in the gentoo livecd..

type rescue..

on 'start?' type 0.0000
on 'end?' type over 100 with a couple of decimal places..

oh man , I definately don't wanna erase the partitions and redo windows and all those stupid drivers again. I guess if there is no other way though I will back up alot of crap. I could also erase the mbr . But that was difficult last time I screwed it up.

there's no need to reinstall.

if you have a life-cd, just mount the root partition of Slackware and do a " chroot " to that dir.
then edit " /etc/lilo.conf " and after that, run "lilo "

if you need more help with that, just post.

egag