I ran slackpkg update and it downloaded a bunch of packages and updated them. I noticed some were kernel packages...something about going from "2" to "3". It installed all the packages amd then asked me to run lilo config...so I did, answered it's questions and when I rebooted it no longer boots.

I get the splash screen, select linux, then it says it's booting lilo...waits for all the dots, drops to the next line and sits there.

I'm going to have to boot from the DVD or from another distro's livecd, but how do I go about fixing this or am I doomed and have to reinstall?

First post the o/p of :

ls /boot

See the kernel version. Check if your lilo.conf is alright. If possible post the relevant section. Put "compact" in lilo.conf and re-run lilo.

Does this look familiar?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...pgrade-775056/

liloconfig? but did you run lilo too?

if not...

insert a dvd with slack, mount your root partition to /mnt, if you have and a /boot partiion mount it to /mnt/boot.
ls -l /mnt/boot/ to see the name of your new kernel.
PS: "vmlinuz" is a symlink to vmlinuz-huge-etc. ls -l /mnt/boot/vmlinuz to be sure that`s a symlink.. and if it is rm /mnt/boot/vmlinuz; ln -s /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-huge-new /mnt/boot/vmlinuz to make a new symlink it the one what already exist isn`t good.
vi /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and modify image line to fit with the name of the kernel that you have in /mnt/boot/
run /sbin/lilo -r /mnt,if that will not work try /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt
umount /mnt/boot; umount /mnt. good luck

Yes it does! I'll report back this evening and see if this is the issue.

I thought I had seen something about not booting after an update but couldn't find it in the forums...thanks

Fixed!