I've been attempting to install Slackware 10.1 on my home former HP comp. I had slackware 9.1 running once upon a time on it, though I don't recall exactly what I did. Anyway, everything installs and goes well, so on and so forth. I come to the point when I'm supposed to instal LILO, I'm given the option of Floppy/MBR/SuperBlock. When selecting either Superblock or MBR, i get an error that basically states that an error occured (I can't recall exact text, if needed I can replicate it). I'd rather not require having a floppy to boot up the system, (though, probably would have been worth a shot just to make sure it worked) The harddrive is a 60gig IDE drive on the secondary chain, is /dev/hdc/ (Primary chain failed a fair while ago) And, if mem serves, in the past, if I install WinXP/similar, installing lilo to the mbr works. Again, I'd rather not have to install xp just to get it to work. Can anyone offer any help?

"...Primary chain failed a fair while ago..." I think that's your problem. The MBR is normally considered to be on /dev/hda and that is probably where lilo is trying to write to. Try installing to /dev/hdc instead if that is the drive you generally boot from. You might want to check your boot settings in your BIOS too just to confirm. Creating a boot floppy is always a good idea, even if you don't intend to use it. If you just install lilo to the floppy (rather than inluding the whole kernel etc) then you can just copy over the info with dd: # dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hdc bs=446 count=1

After the install is done and you do the post-install-configuration install lilo in expert mode and foolow these guidelines: -begin a new lilo installation -add a linuz partition -add a windows partition, if needed -install lilo on MBR Read carefully the instructions, be shure everything is coorect and you shouldn't have any problems. Probably you know this already, but anyway: you can boot the OS with the first installation CD; at the command prompt type "bare.i root=/dev/hdc1 noinitrd ro" with the according modifications to match your system. Once you're in, log in as root and type "liloinstall" to bring you right at the lilo install script /sbin/liloconfig Regards! Alex G.