kevin360@yahoo.com (Kevin) wrote in message

> I had problems with LILO and a new Giga-byte P4 MB. Tried
> different settings in the BIOS and LILO didn't fix the problem.
> Finally I tried 'nuni' and it boots no problem. nuni bypasses the
> BIOS code and accesses the drives directly, I wish LILO would
> incorporate it's code as an option. You can find nuni on freshmeat:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuni/

Thanks Kevin. I'm a real newbie...I've only been playing around with
Slack, Linux and OS's for about a month. I'm taking a look at the
program you suggested. Are the install instructions really as easy as
follows?

Installation instructions:

(1) put the nuni-0.08.tar.gz file in a convenient place
(2) tar zxf nuni-0.08.tar.gz
(3) cd nuni-0.08
(4) ./c (this is a script with a gcc command in it)

Configuration and installation instructions (for nuni):

(1) cd /path/nuni-0.08
(2) edit nuni to set the following items:
(a) path to kernel image <----------------So this would be
/boot/vmlinuz??
(b) target partition for installing the boot loader
<--------/dev/hda3??
(c) command line for kernel <---------Do I need one if I haven't
been passing any special paramters to the kernel??
(3) ./nuni


And I am assuming that I don't need to install nunimbr.asm since I
have only Linux on my system.

Are my assumptions correct? I just want to make sure before I try
this. If this doesn't work, can I just continue to boot with my
Syslink disk? Should I try GRUB as an alternate to LILO? This is
quite annoying. I can understand having problems if this were a new
installation, but I was fine up until yesterday. Strange.

Cheers,
Lucinda