[TriLUG] slackware ... grub? - resolution

[Stan Briggs]

all,

thanks for the input. problem resolved. 

resolution:
installed LILO to the MBR.

extraneous discussion:
in the slackware installation process when you are installing the bootloader
(LILO or nothing are the choices) there are three choices. not knowing which
one to do i started with 1. choices 1 and 2's problems were, i believe,
compounded by the fact that i had not made my first partition bootable on
had. correcting that, though, did not fix the problem until i exercised
choice 3 which is to install LILO to the MBR.

rhetorical questions:
did my non-boot partition really compound the problem(s)? would the problem
have fixed itself if i had simply proceeded to choice 3? i don't know.

onward and upward,
stan

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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Randall Barlow
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:27 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] slackware ... grub?

It sounds like you need to use a LiveCD of some sort, and then chroot into
your newly installed system to run the lilo installer (I don't know what
this is, but I'm sure someone on the list does [or Google...])  I don't
think you want to use grub-install since you said you want to (or have to?)
use Lilo...

R

stan briggs wrote:
> i agree that the bootloader info isn't being written properly to the 
> MBR. but slackware only offers the slackware (or nothing) option. 
> there is never an opportunity to do anything to the MBR, is there?
>   


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