I just replaced fedora with slackware 10.1 & all I get when I boot is
"grub>" how can I make this go away without making a win98 boot disk & doing
an fdisk /mbr? this is on a machine without any form of windows.

mike wrote:

> I just replaced fedora with slackware 10.1 & all I get when I boot is
> "grub>" how can I make this go away without making a win98 boot disk & doing
> an fdisk /mbr? this is on a machine without any form of windows.
>
>
You're experiencing after effects of your Fedora installation, and I'm
guessing here that you installed LILO into your root partition
(perhaps scared off by the words "install into the MBR... possibly
unsafe").
Grub needs a file that is no longer there, and LILO cannot be reached...

So, boot into Slackware - not from hard disk, but booting from the
install CD.
Copying verbatim from the welcome screen:

"""
In a pinch, you can boot your system from here with a command like:

For example, if the Linux system were on /dev/hda1.

boot: bare.i root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro
"""

When you're in, make sure to open "/etc/lilo.conf" in the editor of
your choice (vi comes to mind) and look for a line that probably will
look like "boot = /dev/hda1" and replace it by "boot = /dev/hda" .
This instructs LILO to write the bootloader to your disk's MBR instead
of your root partition.
After saving your changes, DO NOT FORGET to run the command "lilo"
otherwise the MBR will be unchanged.
Then, remove the CD and reboot. You should be welcomed by your
Slackware on-disk.

Cheers, Eric