need help installing slack 7.0

[mis]

I get to the point of making a bootdisk and if I choose the simple vmliniz when I boot it goes through the loading with the lines of ........................................
then I get somthing like
DOX000 and this repeats and makes my PC beep. If I try to write LILO to bootdisk it gives and error of not enough free space on disk and does not write the files. If I try to skip the boot disk and write lilo to floppy for normal booting it does the same thing. I have formatted it each time and even bought new disks since these had been used before and nothing. Really want to try slack as the others are getting boring but I can't boot. I have it here with me at work and another guy that uses Slack checked the jumpers and the BIOS settings and said that they were ok. Any suggestions?

<edit> I did take the same disks and make a functions ME boot disk out of it.
Mis

[ 02 March 2001: Message edited by: mis ]

[Lorithar]

*umms*

I need a tad more info here.
1) what sort of install are we aiming for here.
2) arrangement of harddrives/boot points/O/S's
3) hardware types .. especially that there floppy.
4) what are we installing slack from..

[mis]

Originally posted by Lorithar:
*umms*

I need a tad more info here.
1) what sort of install are we aiming for here.

Doing a full install untill I get more comfortable with it.

2) arrangement of harddrives/boot points/O/S's

WinME on first 7 gigs
Swap 192 megs
linux 12800
On 20 gig total drive

3) hardware types .. especially that there floppy.

Amd k62-500
20 gig maxtor HD
S3 video card (same with Cirrus card though)
ESS1869 sound card
have no idea brand of floppy was $15 at CompUSA
generic cdrom
Panasonic burner
64 megs of memory

4) what are we installing slack from..

Installing from downloaded ISO on cd (tested in junk pc here and installed ok on it)

[Lorithar]

*bingo*

The problem here is that the version of lilo that ships with 7.0 is NOT capable of booting from beyond the 1024th cylinder of the harddrive... which .. if your partition layout is as it shows, is your problem.

There is a new version of lilo out there .. and slack 7.1 ships with it.
Considering where you are stuck, boot to me, go to the www.slackware.com (http://www.slackware.com) site, download the following,
from the 7.1 packages,
boot.img
color.gz
rawwrite[highestversion].exe
to a clean dir on your windows box.
use rawwrite to create the boot disk and kernel disks
this will let you boot the linux you have installed (lilo will take command line parameters which will load your current system, the panel that comes up off the floppy is pretty throrough)
Once into your new slack distro, bring up the components to connect to the net, and get the new lilo .. build, install, and you *should* be good to go shortly thereafter .. (you will need to edit /etc/lilo.conf somewhere along the line)

Whhoooops ... not from packages menus...
look for bootdisks..

[ 02 March 2001: Message edited by: Lorithar ]

[mis]

I was corrected it is 7.1.

[11000]

Originally posted by mis:
I was corrected it is 7.1.

Really? I've never had that problem with 7.1 but I did have that exact problem with 7.0. Especially the running out of space while making a lilo bootdisk, that definitely sounds like 7.0.

But if it is 7.1 then is there any way that you can put the / partition so that it ends before the 1024th cylinder? I know that cleared up the problem for me in 7.0. I think it might be your bois that won't boot from a partition beyond the 1024th cylinder? Of course, I'm not a hardware person, so I could be wrong, but that did seem to be the problem with my 20gig drive.

[ph34r]

If you keep the cd, you really don't need to make a boot disk. When you boot from the cd, part of the message it displays is how to use it as a boot disk to get into your full system.

boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/hda? initrd=

or something like that...

Once you are in, update lilo to the latest/greatest version and you should be set.