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I've just installed slackware 10.0, and it gets past lilo and shows lots of text, starts to boot, but then looks for a floppy boot disk, or something similar. I ...
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- 10-20-2004 #1Just Joined!
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Slackware booting without floppy
I've just installed slackware 10.0, and it gets past lilo and shows lots of text, starts to boot, but then looks for a floppy boot disk, or something similar. I don't have a floppy drive, someone please help!
- 10-20-2004 #2Linux Newbie
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don't use slack myself but you should have been given the option of installing a boot loader into the MBR
- 10-20-2004 #3Just Joined!
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I have installed the LILO boot loader, it gets past that, starts to boot Slackware, then complains about lack of boot disk in the floppy drive.
HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP :P
- 10-21-2004 #4Just Joined!
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Sorted it, removed the option of making a bootdisk during the install.
- 10-25-2004 #5Just Joined!
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i couldn't find to install a boot loader
i couldn't find to install a boot loader in time what slackware install on my pc pentium mendocino 433 mhz 128 mb ram 4mb video ram
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how can i compile a boot loader for my sys linux is on /dev/hda
.....ext3 system file
- 10-26-2004 #6Linux Newbie
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Starting to seek the page http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/
Just a Newbie....Looking 4 Info....
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