On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov wrote:

> I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
> see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
> I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
> of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
> whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
> it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
> as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
> But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
> new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
> what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.

You will also want to make sure that /dev/hda1 is set as bootable as well.
You can you fdisk /dev/hda and set it as a bootable partition.