problem installing 10.2

[jessebo]

Ok, so I just installed slackware 10.2. When I rebooted my computer for the first time there was a black screen with LI at the top of the page. I think it's the beginning of LILO but it just stops there with a curser after the LI flashing.

So I threw in the boot disk and rebooted, and after pressing ENTER the screen read:

Loading vmlinuz.......
Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.


So I guess I need to reinstall, but would prefer not to. Any suggestions?

I have a feeling that it could be the partition.

thanks in advance

[rcgreen]

The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html

Did you have problems partitioning the disk, or did you
do something unusual? It does seem to be a partition
problem. That's what they mean by "geometry mismatch"

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~mibe...d4hnode48.html

[Kojak]

Have you checked the media if it matched the md5sum before installing the system? Maybe you got a corrupt download or a bad burn.