[ale] Almost home with Slack-9.1

[Kevin Karst]

use the MBR by writing these entries in lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda (MBR)

then later on in the choice section
root=/dev/hda1 (partition of root)


--- John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I seem to have a modest but viable Slackware-9.1
> installation on my humble 
> Toshiba 430CDT after no more than the usual number
> of pratfalls, and no 
> major faceplants. All in all, it was smooth so far.
> (Haven't fired up 
> XFree86 yet, though ...)
> 
> I chose to boot from the Linux partition's
> superblock as counseled by the 
> installer, but I Lilo doesn't seem to find it and I
> hand at the 'LI' 
> prompt and must still boot with the floppy.
> 
> My '/etc/lilo.conf' stipulates:
>  boot=/dev/hda1
>  and I used 'fdisk' to toggle the 'bootable' flag on
> this partition, but 
> don't seem to get there.
> 
> What additional pixie dust do I need here, or is it
> perhaps a basic 
> problem with my laptop?
> 
> If I go to booting with the MBR, how do I put a boot
> image in place?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 
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