rlm@ktx.justlinux.ca 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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>The problem is that you have to install lilo to the master boot
>record. The command is lilo -M
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>Look under man lilo for details.
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>cordially, as always,
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That's what it was, I installed it to root as that was the default
selection. It did say that installing it to mbr might be a security
risk, do you know why is that? Doesn't make that much difference to me,
but still would like to know. Thanks for your help.