Have you mark the partition active in additional to bootable?

> I got it to work by selecting MBR. Installing on superblock gave
> no errors. But didn't work.

Installing to the superblock (IIAC) installs lilo to the linux
partition, then if you mark that partion bootable and active, and if
that partition is within the 1024 cylinder limit, and as long as the
MBR still contains a valid DOS MBR, then the DOS MBR will try to boot
the active partion, (your linux partion) which contains lilo, which
will boot your system.

The only time i've found the super block option useful is when i'm using
third-party booters.. such as mrbooter, (up to 8 primary partions, and
up to 64 different bootable OS's). In this scenario, mrbooter lives on
the MBR, and each OS must boot from its own partion. For linux, it
would be lilo on the superblock, for NT/XP it would be ntloader.exe
from what ever M$ calls the superblock.. etc..

So in summary (IIAC), to use the superblock option, puts you within all
the limitations of the DOS MBR. I personally always just install linux
on the mbr and have never had a problem with any limitations.

>
>> Since you have been able to log into your system using the CD, you
>> can run liloconfig again.

or just edit the "/etc/lilo.conf" file by hand and then run "lilo"..
this is slackware right? we don't like/need graphical wizards to help
us run our own systems! j/k

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-alex49201

William Wong wrote:
> Have you mark the partition active in additional to bootable?
>
>
Yes, but it was outside the 1024 limit.

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Rob

"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be
explained by stupidity."

alex49201 wrote:

>> I got it to work by selecting MBR. Installing on
>> superblock gave no errors. But didn't work.
>
>
> Installing to the superblock (IIAC) installs lilo to the
> linux partition, then if you mark that partion bootable
> and active, and if that partition is within the 1024
> cylinder limit,

This may have been the problem. The Linux partition was
outside beyond the 1024th cylinder. Somebody might want to
add that little tidbit to the liloconfig screens.

> and as long as the MBR still contains a valid DOS MBR,
> then the DOS MBR will try to boot the active partion,
> (your linux partion) which contains lilo, which will boot
> your system.

This was all done.

> So in summary (IIAC), to use the superblock option, puts
> you within all the limitations of the DOS MBR. I
> personally always just install linux on the mbr and have
> never had a problem with any limitations.

This is what I ultimately did.

>>> Since you have been able to log into your system
>>> using the CD, you can run liloconfig again.

I've run it several times.

> or just edit the "/etc/lilo.conf" file by hand and then
> run "lilo".. this is slackware right? we don't like/need
> graphical wizards to help us run our own systems! j/k
>

I'm too lazy for that. I got tired of editing config files
by hand 15 years ago.

--
Rob

"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be
explained by stupidity."