marketwatcher63@yahoo.com (Lucinda) wrote in message news:<b5dd2310.0405261533.78fd1d1d@posting.google. com>...
> upgraded to Slack Current a few days ago and everything was going
> well. I haven't made any changes to my system files since then and
> didn't install any new software yesterday. This morning I tried to
> boot my machine and got the error message "LIL" when trying to load
> LILO. I have LILO on my MBR and I don't run any other OS except linux.

> I couldn't boot with the cd I made from "makerescue" but I was able
> to boot with a Slax live cd. This morning I could get into the system
> fine after booting (via root=/dev/hda3), but noticed that once I was
> in, my hard drive was being recognized as
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ instead of hda3!!

I noticed last week sometime that one of the slackware-current udev
upgrades came with an executable /etc/rc.d/rc.udev file. I have no
experience with udev whatsoever, but changing the device names you
are experiencing leads me to wonder if you are inadvertently running
(a possibly incompletely configured) udev since upgrading?

If so, then "chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.udev" might solve your problem.

Jeffrey