I can .001% of the time get the cd drive to boot....i can get this fixed once I get home but I have been going crazy here at work with no Linux....once I get home I can get a floppy....loadlin is not liking my winxp install....i think the exact error is 'I hate you, hail Microsoft' Something like that Dan Lansing ITSC -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Scot Jenkins Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:48 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] install failure/lilo hates me How did you get slackware installed initially without a floppy or cdrom? AFAIK you're going to need some other media you can boot from (generally floppy or cdrom) in order to fix the MBR. I suppose you could try booting from a DOS partition via loadlin (assumes you're not running NTFS on your windows partition in a dual boot scenario). It's been a long time since I ran loadlin. I'd try to find a floppy drive that works. If you need one I have some spares. Email me off list if interested. TIP: when installing slackware, always select "Simple" when asked during liloconfig. You can always go back and change it later, but in my experience, selecting "simple" _always_ works. Lansing, Dan wrote: > I tried to install slack 9.1 over an existing slack 9.0 install....reformatted the partition and did the install, I found out when I tried to do the install that my cdrom drive is broken.... > Now when I boot....at lilo I pick slackware and get > Loading Slackware_9.0EBDA too big > I have since wised up and just put all needed files on my windows partition and would like to try and repair my slackware install....if I can get into Linux I'm sure I can do this....i have no floppy and my cd does not work....is there anything I can type at the lilo prompt to get in here? > > Dan Lansing > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list