I gave up....i tracked down some floppies and am just going to make some install disks....good news through this though is I decided to just kill my windows install off here...just made a fat32 partition to hold my files till I get home and the rest will be wacked...... 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 12:35 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] install failure/lilo hates me you are trying to boot using your existing root partition on the hard drive, right? in lilo, it's something like this to boot single user using /dev/hda1 as your root (/) partition: boot: linux 1 root=/dev/hda1 if you only have 1 floppy, you might try a tomsrtbt disk[1], manually mount / and then run lilo chroot: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt -v [1] http://www.toms.net/rb/ Lansing, Dan wrote: > Loadlin is on a fat32 partition...c drive is ntfs but I don't think that should matter.....got a floppy drive from a guy here and loadlin likes that much better....hangs at booting kernel but I think if I play with it long enough I will either make it work or it will be time to go home....then that will be solved...i may just end up making some slack install floppy's but the supply room currently has only 5.25 floppy's.....jee....wonder why nobody wanted those.... > > 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 12:13 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] install failure/lilo hates me > > Lansing, Dan wrote: > > I'm using the loadlin that came on the slack9.1 disk....i do have a cf card I have been using to get the required files on to the win partition....it just seems that loadlin doesn't like xp but I know the feeling is mutual so there is no love lost there....just seething frustration.....a guy I work with is hooking me up with a floppy so hopefully in the next few minutes I should be having a happy day.... > > man, and I thought it was rough in the morning without coffee, but I've > never tried it without Linux :) I understand your frustration. > > I suspect the XP install is on an NTFS and loadlin is unhappy about > that. > > good luck. > -- > 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 -- 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