LILO Will Not Install
 

I'm trying to learn Linux, so I'm installing Slackware for the first time on an old computer I have sitting around (733 Mhz P3, 128MB RAM, 13 gig HDD). I have my hard drive partitioned into 3 logical drives: hda1 and hda3 are formatted with ReiserFS and hda2 is a Linux swap partition. hda1 is where I'm installing Slackware and hda3 will be mounted under that. The install script runs fine until I get to the part about installing LILO. I've tried installing it to the MBR and directly to the hard drive. (The system does not have a floppy drive.) I can obviously use the system using the install CD as a boot disk, but what could be causing LILO to not install? (Alternatively, is there a LILO replacement I can use?)

Do an expert lilo install and it should work. Make sure you install into mbr and you choose the proper partition for lilo.

When you installed Slack did you set hda1 as bootable? If you correctly installed lilo to the MBR and set your root partition to be bootable it should work.

Install Completed
 

Thanks for your help. Setting the drive to bootable worked. (Evidently I never wrote setting it to bootable to the hard drive.)

You are very welcome!:D I'm happy you're up and running:-)