Alan Connor wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>I had the same problem with lilo once. It turned out that I needed to
>have boot = /dev/hda rather than boot = /dev/hda1 in /etc/lilo.conf,
>the global part of the file.
>Root was /dev/hda1.
>Then re-run lilo.
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>AC
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Didn't help, but thx for the suggestion. Checked the partitions and hda1
is set to bootable. Can boot fine from the cd, but still have no idea
where GRUB comes from.