Slak 8.1 help

[E-tarded]

Hey guys and gals, I'm having a wee bit of trouble with this...Ok, here I go:

I've recently installed slackware and I think everything went smoothly in the installation, I just don't know why the bootloader(LILO) doesn't 'boot'. Rather than boot it just prints out LI and then that's it.... I was told to use GRUB instead, so I tossed it on a disk from my mom's windows computer...

How would I tar this file from command line?
tar -xy(there was more I just can't remember :)) /fd0/grub-0.92.tar.gz doesn't work either

I need slack to survive!

(P 133megabiotch processor w/32megs of SDRAM)

[janet loves bill]

When I installed Slack, I did not use either lilo, or loadlin, or grub, I just made a simple custom boot floppy, and it boots to /dev/hda6. simple really. look on your CD and you should find a folder named boot, the readme will tell you how to make a boot floppy.

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by E-tarded I was told to use GRUB instead

Installing GRUB will not solve the fact that LILO is just incorrectly configured. Boot with your rescue floppy you made during installation and then edit the /etc/lilo.conf file according to the information found here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html

LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.

It's probably that lilo is pointing to the wrong partition. Please post you lilo.conf file and the contents of /etc/fstab. Once you've edited the config file, run /sbin/lilo -v -t and if you see no errors run /sbin/lilo -v. Now reboot :)

[E-tarded]

You rock! Thanks alot man, worked like a charm