Slackware :: LILO Doesn't Show Up At Boot

Apr 14, 2010

I have Windows on sda1 and just installed Slackware on sda2. There also is a hda data drive, which usually appears first on drive lists. During installation, LILO gave an error (I tried installing both to MBR and root, both times the error was about something like "root: (N6").

Then I did the following

-boot with installation cd
-hugesmp.s root=/dev/sda2 rdinit= ro
-login

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Code: Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0011 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)
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Here is my lilo image area:

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Code:

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Code:

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Code:

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