John K. Herreshoff wrote:

> heavytull wrote:
>
>> On Apr 22, 10:45 pm, "John K. Herreshoff" <n...@not.here> wrote:
>>> heavytullwrote:
>>> > My slackware 11 is hanging at the point "BIOSdata ckeck" just after
>>> > booting it via lilo.
>>>
>>> > It is hapening like that since i changed the booting devices order in
>>> > theBIOS;
>>>
>>> > i just shifted the boot on USD HDD from 5th or farther to third just
>>> > before the main hardware on which there is the linux partition and
>>> > windows.
>>>
>>> > also note that however is my usb key (plugged in or not) Linux is
>>> > hanging.
>>>
>>> Try this just for fun: in your lilo.conf, set vga=ask and see what
>>> happens.
>>> Remember to run lilo as root after changing the lilo.conf file. You may
>>> have a problem with the frame buffer...
>>>
>>> John.
>>
>> i said that linux was hanging, it means that i cannot run lilo.
>>
>> i could maybe run a linux live like slax, but i don't know how to run
>> lilo or anything else as if / was the partition of the linux that is
>> not booting on the hard drive.
>
> Oh duuhhhh. Yeah... You need a rescue disk to boot linux and then fiddle
> with lilo.conf.
>
> Here's what I just worked out...
>
> 1) boot with your slackware #1 CD, and get to the command line... you
> will be root.
>
> 2) Here is where it may get tricky if you have a 'fancy' partition table.
> You will need to mount the partition containing /etc and the partition
> containing /usr/bin. We'll assume that you have just one partition
> located
> on hda1. So cd to /mnt and mkdir root. If you have scsi, then it is
> sda1.
>
> 3) run the command mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/root, and then cd to /mnt/root to
> see what you have... Hopefully you will see etc, bin, usr, and so on.
>
> 4) cd to /mnt/root/etc (or from /mnt/root, just etc) and see what is
> there... You should see a lilo.conf file there. If so, then from that
> directory run /mnt/root/usr/bin/pico lilo.conf, which should open your
> lilo.conf file. If that craps out,
> try /mnt/root/usr/bin/pico /mnt/root/etc/lilo.conf. Edit the lilo.conf
> file by placing a # on the line that has the current vga setting, and un-#
> the line that says vga=ask. If you don't see vga=ask, insert it with the
> other vga= lines, but make sure that it is the only uncommented vga= line.
>
> 5) cd to /mnt and umount root.
>
> 6) If you have more than one partition, you will need to mount the
> partitons containing /etc and /usr/bin so that you can 1) see lilo.conf
> and
> 3) run pico (or whatever quick and dirty command line editor you like)
>
> 7) reboot and remove the slackware CD. Hopefully you will get to
> the 'select the font' or whatever it says, and after that it will boot.
>
> HTH.
>
> John.

Oh! and before you reboot, be sure to run lilo to make the changes in
lilo.conf effective. Lilo is in /sbin, so that will need to be mounted as
well. If you just have one partition, it will be no problem. If not, you
will need to mount it.

John.