lilo on hdc?

[pjc]

quick question....my hard drive is hdc with slack installed. I'm currently booting from floppy and root partition in hdc1. I tried this setup (lilo.conf) I read somewhere but still seem to be missing something::

# This file must be used from a system running off /dev/hdc
  boot = /dev/hdc   # overwrite MBR of hdc
  disk = /dev/hdc   # tell how hdc will look like:
     bios = 0x80    #  the bios will see it as first drive
  delay = 0
  vga = 0

  image = /boot/vmlinuz  # this is on /dev/hdc1
    root = /dev/hda1     # but at boot it will be hda1
    label = Linux
    read-only

Can anybody point me in the right direction......Thanks!

[systempilot]

I may be way off here, but its worth a shot.
Personally I use grub.

Have you tried to change this:

image = /boot/vmlinuz  # this is on /dev/hdc1 
    root = /dev/hda1     # but at boot it will be hda1 
    label = Linux 
    read-only

to this:

image = /boot/vmlinuz  # this is on /dev/hdc1 
    root = /dev/hdc1     # but at boot it will be hda1 
    label = Linux 
    read-only

If your root part. is not at hda1, then you need to point it to the right place (hdc1 as your message states)

Dont forget to run lilo after your done so your changes take effect.

Let me know what happens!

[pjc]

Thanks for the reply, but I think that the "bios" line in lilo.conf file is suppose to trick lilo in thinking that hdc is actually the first drive....(hda) either way stil no go.....