Lilo

[Soda_Popinsky]

Ok, first of all thanks for the help.

It didn't work, I followed chsh's advice.

Added WindowsXP *
Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xf000

btw your command didn't work, should have been (hd replaced with hda2):
./sbin/lilo -C ./etc/lilo.conf -m /mnt/hda2/boot/System.map
Am I right with that command?

[fyrewall]

well i know i altered my lilo prompt time by editing it in lilo.conf and then running /sbin/lilo

ah well .. enjoy being able to enter linux .. doesnt matter how you worked it out so long as you did

[chsh]

Originally posted here by Soda_Popinsky
btw your command didn't work, should have been (hd replaced with hda2):
./sbin/lilo -C ./etc/lilo.conf -m /mnt/hda2/boot/System.map
Am I right with that command?

Btw, for those instructions to work, you need to be in /mnt/hd, since it uses relative paths based on that dir. Do you have a separate boot partition? If you don't, it might work fine with:
cd /mnt/hd
./sbin/lilo -C ./etc/lilo.conf -m ./boot/System.map
(note the . in front of the / at the start of each path)
Also, make sure your System.map really is in the boot dir. If it isn't, try leaving the -m option off (it may give you errors, may not), or if you have the kernel sources at say, /usr/src/linux, you could pass the path as: /usr/src/linux/System.map.

EDIT:
If you boot from the slack install CD, it expects /boot to be symlinked to /mnt/boot, so you could try deleting the /boot symlink and symlinking /mnt/hd/boot to /boot, then ignoring the -m argument.

[cgkanchi]

Are you sure your linux partition is /dev/hda2. Run an fdisk -l on any linux prompt and see which one is a linux partition.

Cheers,
cgkanchi

[Soda_Popinsky]

I got pissed and installed Slackware again. I had a lot of bad configurations, installation problems anyway, so I decided to try everything again.

Thanks again.