> I'm new here, and am not sure exactly where I should post to about this :)
> If someone could direct me to a more appropraite place, i'd be grateful.
>
> Several times I have made the major mistake of installing LILO twice. (IDE
> disks, tried it on 2 different machines) The first install works great, but
> the second time, when the computer boots, it displays 'LI' and freezes.
> Formatting the HD doesn't fix it, redoing the partition table doesn't... in
> fact, the only thing that does is setting the HD's first (few?) sectors to
> 00 and redoing everything... (luckily, i had nothing of value on the disks
> besides linux!)
>
I've had teh same problem, 'cept mine reboots eternaly. The way I delt
with it was to use a boot disk.
The problem went away when I ran lilo from a script (used the install
lilo in slackware config), but still wouldn't work right.
when I did my first successfull "make zlilo" everything cleared up ( I
think/thought it was kernel size, but what do I know?)
What did I learn from this story:
Slackware 3.0.0 has probems.
LILO might be one of Slackware's problems.
Keep a boot disk handy, AND
never trust a human to do a script's job :)
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