Hi
i'm having a problem with lilo on slackware that has consumed quite a lot of my time. i have read the kernel-howto and numerous other guides on the internet, but nothing seems to fit my problem. i hope someone out there can help...........
before i began tinkering my system booted using lilo from a floppy. this has been the same since i installed slackware about 4 months ago.
i have recompiled my kernel and put the resulting bzImage into / as vmlinuz. i edited /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel option and left the old one in too (different name and path!). i've ran the command lilo
my bios is set to boot from the floppy first, so i removed that and rebooted. to my surprise, when it booted off the hard drive, i saw the boot screen for mandrake (which i had installed a while back before dumping it for slackware). naturally, the list of kernel options from the mandrake menu wasn't a lot of help, so i had to reboot again from the floppy.
can anyone explain what i need to do to get slackware booting from the mbr? this is a single boot system (no windows).
i suspect this all stems from some installation error i made when installing slackware?
anyway, any advice much appreciated.............
i'm having a problem with lilo on slackware that has consumed quite a lot of my time. i have read the kernel-howto and numerous other guides on the internet, but nothing seems to fit my problem. i hope someone out there can help...........
before i began tinkering my system booted using lilo from a floppy. this has been the same since i installed slackware about 4 months ago.
i have recompiled my kernel and put the resulting bzImage into / as vmlinuz. i edited /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel option and left the old one in too (different name and path!). i've ran the command lilo
my bios is set to boot from the floppy first, so i removed that and rebooted. to my surprise, when it booted off the hard drive, i saw the boot screen for mandrake (which i had installed a while back before dumping it for slackware). naturally, the list of kernel options from the mandrake menu wasn't a lot of help, so i had to reboot again from the floppy.
can anyone explain what i need to do to get slackware booting from the mbr? this is a single boot system (no windows).
i suspect this all stems from some installation error i made when installing slackware?
anyway, any advice much appreciated.............