On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Huub wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I reinstalling Slack on a pc I previously booted using a floppy. Now I
> want to boot straight from the harddisk, but have a very hard time getting
> lilo to show anything else than L 99. Booting with the floppy still works
> ok, but after 5 complete reinstallation attempts today including trying to
> put lilo in different places and editing lilo.conf it still doesn't go.
>
> /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered) image =
> /boot/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hdc2
> label = Linux
> read-only
>
> Thanks for any solution or idea
>
> Huub

You did type lilo after your modifications, didn'g you?

JB