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> I recently attempted a switch from RH7.0 to Slackware 7.0 for numerous
> reasons, but the primary reason one was :why not? My adventures in Linux
> have been for pure self edification and learning more is what it is all
> about right? There is a point.
Yep; painful learning is what it's all about ... <G>
> I installed slackware from the bare.i image from floppy, as my BIOS is
> so old it won't boot from cdroms, and i can't find an update, blah,
> blah, blah. So the install is going along nicely, I do my usual
> partitions, have linux as my default os, and load lilo to the mbr.
> Reboot, and up pops windows. S***. So, ever the boy scout, I pop in my
> boot disk made during installation, and lilo comes up and promptly boots
> right back into itself again and again. WTF do I do now? Reinstall?
Well, if there's nothing in any of those partitions you want to save, why
not reinstall? Perhaps you missed a step.
If there is anything you want on there, perhaps a different rescue disk (see
Tom's Root/Boot Diskette, for a start - http://www.toms.net/rb/, altho
http://www.bootdisk.com has a whole lot of downloadable boot disk images,
for many OSes) will let you mount your partition that has your /etc; edit
your lilo.conf on that partition; and then re-run lilo, making sure to tell
lilo to get it's conf file from the newly mounted directory (see "man lilo"
for the exact syntax - it's something like "lilo -c /mnt/my-etc/lilo.conf").
Then reboot, and see what happens.
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