Ok, heres the deal:
Finally got around to setting up me old 4gig hdd last night and whipped out the Slakware 8 isos and booted. Installed Slak and a whole swag of other goodies onto the 4gig. Easy peasy.
Buuuuuut (theres always a but isnt there?)
When I got to the LILO setup menu, I said to install LILO into the superblock of the 4gig hdd (as my winxp install is on my primary hdd and i dont want lilo raping it) as per the fabulous instructions at the slakware site. Lilo dumps me back at the main menu with an error saying it cant do that task. (cant remember the exact wording, this was all happening at 3am mind you)
Not having a floppy drive, I had to skip the lilo install process.
So this morning when I fire up me beast to get back into it, I cant run lilo config, or the setup program and get back to that stage of the game. The only way i can see is re-installing all the linux files again and possibly getting the same error result
So is there some trick to get back to that stage?
ive yet to boot into linux because theres no boot loader (well there is- one from an old mandrake install but it bombs out after showing that lovely boot manager screen)
so i cant post any configs or anything. (or can I?)
Finally got around to setting up me old 4gig hdd last night and whipped out the Slakware 8 isos and booted. Installed Slak and a whole swag of other goodies onto the 4gig. Easy peasy.
Buuuuuut (theres always a but isnt there?)
When I got to the LILO setup menu, I said to install LILO into the superblock of the 4gig hdd (as my winxp install is on my primary hdd and i dont want lilo raping it) as per the fabulous instructions at the slakware site. Lilo dumps me back at the main menu with an error saying it cant do that task. (cant remember the exact wording, this was all happening at 3am mind you)
Not having a floppy drive, I had to skip the lilo install process.
So this morning when I fire up me beast to get back into it, I cant run lilo config, or the setup program and get back to that stage of the game. The only way i can see is re-installing all the linux files again and possibly getting the same error result
So is there some trick to get back to that stage?
ive yet to boot into linux because theres no boot loader (well there is- one from an old mandrake install but it bombs out after showing that lovely boot manager screen)
so i cant post any configs or anything. (or can I?)
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