problems booting slackware

c)mcbrutal · 09-04-2006, 05:34 AM

first off, apologies. I posted this in the main forum first then I saw this sub-forum.

I have my hdd set as primary slave and had no problems installing slackware on my 40gigs of unpartitioned space of my hd. I have windows xp in the first 40 gigs.

When I was asked to install lilo I opted to install it in MBR as I want to dual boot my machine. I got an error message saying that LILO could not be installed to MBR.

I don't have a boot diskette, as I don't have a floppy drive.

My only problem now is that obviously only windows will boot and I don't have any way to boot linux. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Vampirite · 09-04-2006, 07:29 AM

Boot the Slackware CD, it should have instructions on the first page, eg:

Code:

boot: bare.i root=/dev/hda1 ro

Where /dev/hda1 is your Slackware installation.

Then try using grub instead of lilo (package at http://www.linuxpackages.net)

Install using 'installpkg grub*.tgz'

And try running 'grubconfig'.

c)mcbrutal · 09-04-2006, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vampirite

Boot the Slackware CD, it should have instructions on the first page, eg:

Code:

boot: bare.i root=/dev/hda1 ro

Where /dev/hda1 is your Slackware installation.

Then try using grub instead of lilo (package at http://www.linuxpackages.net)

Install using 'installpkg grub*.tgz'

And try running 'grubconfig'.

Thanks very much. Will give it a try when I finish work.